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MOVIES: Vera Drake depicts abortion as an all-too-human dilemma...
Chavez’s early encounters with Harvard athletics—on the junior varsity football team, since freshmen were banned from the varsity by Ivy League rule—quickly sorted out that dilemma, however...
...experience of the work? It is that the meaning resides in the viewer’s experience of the work…And so on in a tautological cycle of self-reflection that eludes all possibility of real meaning. What is perhaps most unfortunate about this dilemma is that it has recently led some artists, architects and even critics to stop talking about meaning all together. When you stop talking about meaning, you are left with only your visceral experience of a work, your gut reaction to it. And at this point criticism becomes nothing more than a dangerously arbitrary...
...rating a problem? I would have rated it PG. The film does deal with serious issues. It's similar to Mel Gibson's dilemma with The Passion [of the Christ]. There's no way to glamorize an execution on a Cross. If you're going to broach a subject like child abuse, which is in this film, you can't turn that into Kool-Aid and Oreo cookies...
...their gaze and Unofficial Guides say “yes.” But will the magic in the air transcend their apparent differences? Will the relationship between the stereotypical skater-punk/athlete/artist and the musician/pre-med ever make it in this crazy mixed-up place temporarily called home? This dilemma is one of the essential questions that will forever plague the hearts and minds of Harvard students, and HSA has captured the poignancy of this eternal struggle...