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...heart of the movie lies in its sex scenes, of which there were many. I’m pretty sure Kathleen—that’s the first nun-witch—sleeps with every male character in the film, and her sister Margaret added two female characters??and the devil incarnate—to their final tally. (To quote a friend, “Those nuns got mad ’sploited.”) These uncomfortable encounters included shaky camerawork as the handheld camcorder filming the scene zoomed in and out unexpectedly. But the highlight...
...stories because, according to Hammer, “that’s the way the truth is.” He would then put the actors together and have them rehearse a scene, each person believing something slightly different about the way the fictional events had transpired in their characters?? pasts. The ending of “Ballast” also defies conventions, as it may seem abrupt to members of the audience seeking a neatly wrapped resolution to the emotional chaos. Describing the particularities of the ending, Hammer said that it only involved...
...father’s watch and indulge in jumbled metaphysical speculations about the nature of time. The incest part might have been a little weird. But Faulkner, like other writers, had a point about the indissoluble link between beauty and death, a theme that turned over eternally in his characters?? minds, and an ache that has vanished amid smaller ones for many of today’s undergraduates...
...This is a familiar Coen brothers trope, explored in numerous films such as “Fargo” and “The Big Lebowski.” What makes those films successful, however, is the skilful juxtaposition between a fatalistic plot and wonderfully imaginative, fully conceived characters??the latter of which “Burn After Reading” unfortunately lacks. The characters are indeed idiosyncratic and neurotic. Linda’s obsession with “reinventing” herself, Harry’s food allergy anxieties, and Ozzy’s pronunciation...
...careers and its headaches. The high schoolers of “Laguna Beach” were never shown bothering with that little inconvenience the rest of us like to call class and homework, which would have been a big, boring part of their lives. Instead, producers capture these characters?? self-involved, repetitive conversations in which the back-story is dutifully recounted so the viewer can identify the episode in question. These scenes—and the obvious voice-overs that often accompany them—only call attention to the artificial lens that captured them. Nothing like...