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...Japan, which comes as a pleasant surprise: the supine performance of the Japanese film industry during much of the past decade was one of the big factors driving China's recent ascendance. Japan's directors took dead aim at real-life subject matter, not shying away from the darker parts of society and keeping clear of any self-conscious Japan-o-philia. In a country where school bullying, teenage prostitution and youth crime increasingly make headlines, Japan's directors and writers certainly have stories to tell. (Not to mention a large captive audience: one thing disaffected teens still manage...
...Gilmour underlines in this essentially sympathetic portrait, Kipling had a darker side. Subsequent generations have found many of his political, racial and sexual attitudes cynically distasteful. He was a world champion hater who found it impossible to forgive and engaged in numerous ferocious vendettas, not least against liberals. His provocative language offended many, even in his own lifetime, and he was a stranger to compromise. "Politics as 'the art of the possible' was a notion Kipling was never able to assimilate," writes Gilmour with vast understatement...
...exchanging both clothing and body language, as Dar Williams’ lyrics, “I will not be afraid of women” blared in the background. The piece examined the roles that men and women are taught to play with each other, tempering the initial comedy with darker intimations of physical violence on the part of the males...
...acquired taste for playing killers go next? He has been talking to Richard Attenborough about doing a film on Mark Twain, his wife Olivia and Twain's progressively angry view of life. "Twain was one of the first to write about the American character, about us, but it became darker and darker. By the end he was so angry at God and at his life. A character like that, you look for those. They have everything...
...support for those mobs. Paradoxically, Muslim fundamentalists, like the hectoring, acid-tongued Syed Shahabuddin, created a platform for the Hindu resurgence in the 1980s with their virulent and purposeless rhetoric. Their successors in 2002 have provided Hindu fanaticism with another cause célèbre. Sadly, in the darker shades of India's patchwork history still lie the present and perhaps the future...