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...which 12-year-old Dakota Fanning plays a victim of sexual abuse who finds comfort in Elvis Presley music. Protested by religious groups and child advocates, the movie's much-debated rape scene turned out to be disturbing but not at all graphic. The camera fixes on a closeup of Fanning's face while the actions of a predatory neighbor boy are mostly implied. Despite protests, it appears the young star of Charlotte's Web and War of the Worlds was not harmed in the making of this movie. She also skied for the first time while in Park City...
...disturbing but not graphic scene that inspired the controversy, the camera fixes on a closeup of Fanning's terrified face while a neighbor boy unzips his pants. Despite the lack of nudity, and cutaways to falling rain, it's clear the boy rapes Fanning's character, Lewellen. More uncomfortable to watch than that short scene, in which the trauma is implied, are the lingering shots throughout the film in which Lewellen gyrates to Elvis music in her underwear while older men and boys watch hungrily...
...Bless the subjects for not getting beautified and Botoxed before they're ready for their septennial closeup. And bless their openness or naivete for continuing with a project that pries open some of their more difficult accommodations to life. It's as if, when they made their deal with the devil, or their recording angel, part of the pact was to be honest, to present themselves as they are, and hope that Apted would be as honest in presenting them...
...guess that many soldiers have returned from Iraq to resume normal lives. The Ground Truth shows that many others have come back dented or crushed. At the beginning of the film we see them testifying in closeup; later the camera pans back, and too many of them are missing a hand or a leg. "Just the other day," Army veteran Robert Acosta recalls, "this guy asked me, how did I lose my hand? And I told him I lost it in the war. And he said, ?What war?? And I said the war in Iraq. And he said, ?That...
...Actors in closeup shout their speeches out of the darkness, their faces caged by the tight frame. Or they'll be grouped, at sardine density, to form a cacophonous crowd. The only actors granted a little light, and thus a bit of traditional movie glamour, are Cummings and the heroine, Arlene Dahl, whose gown Alton lends a silky luster. The angles are, of course, lower than low, giving the viewers the impression they are the masses staring up at these puffed-up figures of power, these gargantuan gargoyles...