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Introduction to Animation’s comparative accessibility is evidenced by the class makeup—of ten students, only two are declared VES concentrators and four were officially undeclared freshmen. Giselle B. Schuetz ’06, for example, is concentrating in History of Science, while Daniel Ross-Rieder avows that he’s “never done anything artistic before.” Freshman have some priority in admittance, since students must have taken at least one VES course to be accepted as concentrators...
Another misfire is the narrative thread about Iranian convenience store owner Farhad and a Hispanic locksmith. The subplot about Daniel the locksmith (Michael Peña) initially seems promising. After stoically listening to Jean’s racial slurs, Daniel returns home to comfort his daughter after she imagines hearing a gunshot, in a scene that, surprisingly, manages to be touching without being sentimental...
Unfortunately, it’s downhill from there. While Farhad (Shaun Toub) is sympathetic for his familial tenderness, a scene in which he attempts to purchase a firearm reveals his detached instability. Farhad becomes progressively more unhinged as he makes unreasonable demands of Daniel after hiring...
...climax of their interaction is too dramatic for its own good: Farhad’s bewildering decision to kill Daniel is foiled when Daniel’s pre-school-aged daughter literally takes the bullet for her father, complete with a slo-mo Platoon-style wail of anguish on Peña’s part...
...Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller’s first cinematic love-baby, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is far from smooth-skinned and gurgling—beneath the stunning surface is a disturbing whirl of chaos and sorrow...