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...always tell my film students…the most important thing is to know one’s duty as a citizen,” Thuy says...
...duty of the citizen is that when we have an idea we have to follow it—we can’t just leave it,” Thuy says. “I try to be as truthful as possible in the films…it’s not an easy thing...
...long career. His performance as a retired insurance executive is a deeply complex and hilariously tragic portrayal of the most banal aspects of one man’s post-mid-life crisis. Director Alexander Payne, famous for his digressions on suburban angst in films such as Election and Citizen Ruth, keeps the tone light and the characters archetypally and delicously bizarre. About Schmidt screens...
...doubt it is macabre to bet on tragedy, but these wagers have the potential to be very helpful in this country’s decision about war in Iraq. Whether for the war or against it, both sides will agree that no citizen should be apathetic about this war. And yet so many are. Apathy stands in the way of an introspective national discussion of this war because people feel like “it” won’t affect them—“it” being the war or the consequences of not going...
...terms capriciously defined by the Attorney General. Under PATRIOT II, native-born Americans are at risk of having their citizenship stripped if they provide “material support” to so-labeled “terrorist” organizations, regardless if the citizen is involved only in lawful activities. There is no governmental check set up to oversee such decisions either, leaving enforcement of the bill solely up to the Ashcroft and his Justice Department cronies. The severity of this provision is extreme: any one of us, citizens and non-citizens alike, could just disappear. And the public...