Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, none of this ever gets televised. The camera shows the tarpaulin or, worse, the faces and cheap suits of the announcers, who either pretend nothing is happening or offer a moralistic diatribe about "these idiots who needlessly extend the game to unmanageable lengths...
People are so dumb. I'm disgusted. Get this camera out of my face. You talk to these people Jim. I can't deal...
...surgical" process, in which the bad guys are zapped off video screens at the push of a button. As in a game of Doom, the videos shown during NATO media briefings give no sense of the shattered bones and ripped flesh that follow when the bomb camera image turns to fuzz. And not surprisingly, the alliance prefers not to show any footage from the bombs that may have strayed from their targets...
Here's the bottom line: if you're in the mood for a (relatively) mindless actioner--light on story and loaded with gratuitous camera shots of Catherine Zeta-Jones's bare back--then this is the film you're looking for. Hey, who needs drama and philosophy on a Friday night...
...decisions enervate more or whether they do at all. One is honest and realist and therefore acceptable, consistent; the other more of a clumsy attempt at social comment an universalizing. But the artifice of almost any ending might have grated (shots of a bus ride away from Lille? Pious camera movements heavenwards...