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...life, her film, and her duty to tell the stories of great women. The Harvard Crimson: In your previous film, “Whale Rider,” you focused on a young girl who had to prove herself and in your latest film “North Country?? you tell the story of a single woman standing up to a coal mine corporation. Why are you so drawn to these types of films? Niki Caro: I think I’m drawn to them because they’re sort of unusual stories. At the moment, there...
Late in the film “Innocent Voices,” the 12-year-old main character waits on his knees to be executed by U.S.-trained government soldiers. Just before our young hero is shot, the country??s leftist guerillas attack and the boy is saved.Before that happens, though, a soldier shoots another boy in the back of the head, and the camera lingers on him as he falls forward, breaking film conventions against showing violence against children on-screen.“Innocent Voices,” Mexico’s official submission...
...students shouldn’t be encouraged to travel to Aceh—but much of the country is less dangerous. Regions determine danger, not entire countries. Smart student travelers can navigate nearly any situation as long as they take certain precautions. In the case of Indonesia, visiting the country??s unique cultures and wildlife, including the world’s last wild orangutans, does not have to entail any more danger than visiting similar wonders in Africa would. If students can prove they have a reliable guide and a safe plan of travel, they should be able...
...film in the world of soccer hooliganism, but I think the tendency to turn to violence as means of conflict resolution is universal. Here in America, after being attacked, our first response was to go and kick some other country??s ass. War has higher stakes than hooliganism, but it’s the same animal instinct in the human race to turn to violence. We have to question...
...billion in already approved emergency spending (which works out to $312,300 per person potentially affected by the storm). The new bill includes $40 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisiana—10 times last year’s Corps budget for the entire country??as well as $50 billion for communities with vague “long-term recovery” plans, and even more blatant boondoggles like $8 million for training on how to preserve historical artworks, $8 million for alligator farms, and $35 million for seafood-industry marketing...