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Even if he has to be carried by guards to his chair behind the empty table reserved for defense lawyers, Milosevic will be at the trial. He will get equal time to make an opening statement. If past appearances offer any clue, he will claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He will force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony from a loudspeaker. He will look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...
Even if he has to be carried by guards to his chair behind the empty table reserved for defense lawyers, Milosevic will be at the trial. He will get equal time to make an opening statement. If past appearances offer any clue, he'll claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He'll force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony into his face from a loudspeaker. He'll look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...
Pellington, who helmed the mediocre Arlington Road, is competent, but his style seems a little too flashy for the material. Between every scene Pellington uses loud disjointed transitions, and though this is somewhat interesting at first, it soon becomes clear that he only does so because he has no clue how to segue from one scene to another. He also fails to set the proper tone and atmosphere, both of which should be vital in Mothman. Another problem is that his obvious visual tricks—superimposing images, Mothman-like figures and red eyes scattered all over, quick camera movements...
...there, he also has to deal with the angry townsfolk, all of whom he skewered in his best seller. Cahill is especially impressive not only because he--as well as the other actors, including Frances Fisher (Titanic, Traffic) as his newspaper-editor mom--has to work with the usual clue-dropping and case-solving explanations, but because Glory Days is bogged down with more character exposition than an A.A. meeting. Everyone has a past relationship to Mike that he or she just needs to tell you about right...
...wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior." He tells the story of a friend who painted a mock Pollock at his surfer bar to clue in visitors that this was a wiggly kind of place. "The 'Pollock,'" Hickey explains, "was no different from the sign at the front door that said, 'No shirt, no shoes, no problem...