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Carol is "allergic to the 20th century," and Safe tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at Wrenwood, a "chemical-free zone" in New Mexico. Writer-director Todd Haynes, who made the importantly weird short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Poison, a minimalist epic of sex and longing in the age of aids, again has decay and estrangement in mind. This scarily confident, beautifully acted study is gnomic and anomic, like a TV disease movie made in an alternate universe. And in Moore's pretty, aggrieved face, Haynes finds the ideal vessel for his concerns...
Writer-director Todd Haynes has made a scarily confident movie about a suburban wife (Julianne Moore) who is "allergic to the 20th century." "Safe" tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at a "chemical-free zone in New Mexico." Moore's beautifully acted performance gives the director the vessel to present his questions about suburbia, the environment and 12-step programs. "The brazen majesty of Haynes' approach," says Corliss, is that "he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing...
Urging those attending the service to "care for those beyond our local sphere" by performing public service, Perkins said he and his classmates could "conquer death by reaching beyond ourselves...
...conquer death by upholding values we are willing to die for," Perkins added...
...educational equality....To truly change the climate of the American workplace--so that minority job applicants are no longer greeted by seas of white interviewers--affirmative action must have more time....In order to prepare the youth of America for a fair, stable and racially equitable society, education must conquer the discrimination that has hitherto been passed from generation to generation...