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Amidst musical slide shows and poetic riffs from Cantabrigian storyteller "Brother Blue," the Fifth Annual Peace and Justice Awards presented by the Cambridge Peace Commission recognized the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) campus efforts last night...
Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), hero of David Lynch's The Straight Story, brings out the best in people--by talking or listening to them or just by the example of his tortoise-like quest. He is driving his John Deere lawnmower 350 miles to see his estranged brother. Alvin turns out to be your basic Lynch hero: a Kyle Maclachlan type, as average as apple pie, who follows his obsessions to heaven or hell. The supporting cast is normal too--and thus vastly weird, because Lynch presents them, as he did the sickos of Blue Velvet, without comment or condescension...
Last year, the Licensing Board placed the Theta Chi fraternity on probation for seven months after a Boston University first-year suffered alcohol poisoning while drinking in a brother's room...
...rides his lawnmower from Iowa to Wisconsin to visit his estranged brother...
...fresh. But is this any less justified of an approach to filmmaking? Sure, we know what's going to happen, 15 minutes into the movie and this fact, coupled with our optimistic belief that happy endings still exist, leaves us confident that Alvin Straight will be reunited with his brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton), whether incarnate or in spirit. But if the film only promised us the potential for factual knowledge, could we sit through it? Not to be a complete moral relativist, but I wonder who'd really care what happened to Alvin? Alvin Straight traveled from Iowa...