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Especially, I think, by Bardem. He's got a totally weird haircut and an eerily calm manner, smiling and soft-spoken. He is also an incredibly efficient killing machine. The shock of his sudden depredations - pow, you're dead - grants the movie some of its very curious rhythm. It has a rather calm and objective air about it most of the time. But whenever Bardem appears, something nasty starts twisting in your gut. He's about as perfect a representation of unambiguous evil as the movies have lately offered. And Brolin is his perfect foil. He's terrific...
...pause for a few kind words about Tommy Lee Jones. He's the old man this hard country is wearing down, and there is in his performance an interesting element. He knows his time is past, but there's nothing elegiac in that awareness. There's a kind of calmness, a determination to go on behaving as he always has, without fuss, feathers or moral fervor. He plays what amounts to a classic America hero, but without once acknowledging the long line of such figures - in movie history his antecedents date back to silent pictures - that inform his character...
...style. Clowns, like fools in Shakespeare, are traditionally viewed as standing outside of society, looking in while wryly commenting on it. Perhaps Høeg aspires to this role, but by the end of the novel, his antics drive his readers to long with Kasper for the silence and calm that only KlaraMaria, the quiet girl, is able to offer...
...than a rebel, and he cheerfully avoids the active political life of his late father, Haji Anwar, who was involved in the founding of the United Malays National Organization, Malaysia's ruling party since 1957. Even so, it is possible to imagine the directness of Zakii's compositions and calm, soothing brushstrokes as echoing his upbringing in a family of firm convictions. "I believe in certainty," he says. "Uncertainty is a process but it must end in certainty. You must come to a conclusion...
...Although the defendant appeared calm during the first day's proceedings, his long history of defiant, often aggressive behavior suggests that the trial could be a turbulent affair. During five years of preparation for the trial, he tossed obscenities at prosecutors and court clerks during hearings, refused to use a computer and insisted that all court papers (some 250,000 pages) be translated in Serbian Cyrillic (Serbs use both scripts). Like Milosevic, Seselj insisted on being his own defense lawyer, and when the court attempted to assign him an attorney, he went to a 28-day-long hunger strike, until...