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...opining “you just gave up and thought that that was being dead,” and correcting all of us who had naively confused being dead with, well…being dead. Eerily akin to Warhol’s “Car Crash?? series, these images conflate simulated death with sexiness and transform the morbid into an overt spectacle...
...adulation for the movie is much deserved. It reminded me more than a bit of the 2005 film Crash??heartfelt and vivid, if contrived at times. But these minor flaws are overshadowed by the unfair and worrisome criticism that has been aimed at it by many Indians. Most of the disapproval focuses not on what makes the movie weak (the farcical plot and mediocre character development) but on what makes it strong (the gritty emphasis on the desperately poor country that is still modern India...
...criticism of Slumdog, that would be it. It leans too heavily on this time-honored protest model, one summed up by Crash??s director, Paul Haggis, when he said in his 2005 Oscar acceptance speech that, “Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape...
...Parliament in 1987.The author further enlivens his text by employing clever examples. Many concepts of voting theory are quite difficult to understand, but Poundstone skillfully presents them within relatively simple contexts. His discussion of vote splitting is aided by an explanation of why “Crash?? beat “Brokeback Mountain” for Best Picture in 2005; he explains a voting method known as a “Borda count” by discussing its use for MVP selection in Major League Baseball. These relevant, often humorous examples—coupled with political cartoons...
...economics concentrator to boot—these factors aren’t what compel me to make the 21-hour train ride back to Illinois.I’ll play my cards face up: I’m a devotee of the “Crash?? theory on social relations.As outlined in Don Cheadle’s opening speech, the “Crash?? theory argues that disjointed, miserable lives are the result of the isolation of what are inherently social beings, made manifest most clearly by the steel and glass boxes known as cars. Trains...