Word: doorstep
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These PG-13 gross-outs are the movie equivalent of a flaming turd left by pranksters on a teacher's doorstep. And the teacher--the victim--is not the nation's parents but its kids. Children are victims because they are being deprived of a prime rite of passage: the discovery of naughtiness in a furtive setting. Once upon my time, dirty jokes were passed from older child to younger like sacred texts from the Gnostic Bible. They had the frisson of the forbidden. Now they are the official culture, imposed by film stars, sanctioned by a PG rating...
...These PG-13 gross-outs are the movie equivalent of a flaming turd left by pranksters on a teacher's doorstep. And the teacher - the victim - is not the nation's parents but its kids. Children are victims because they are being deprived of a prime rite of passage: the discovery of naughtiness in a furtive setting. Once upon my time, dirty jokes were passed from older child to younger like sacred texts from the Gnostic Bible. They had the frisson of the forbidden. Now they are the official culture, imposed by film stars, sanctioned by a PG rating...
...start. That Ron Meyer and those other guys, stealing the morning paper off my doorstep...
...brooding mug will flicker through five films in the next 12 months. Missing Gun?a fast-paced crime flick about a small town cop whose frantic search for his stolen pistol unearths a web of provincial vice?is Jiang's first appearance in a film since Devils on the Doorstep, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. Two years ago, Devils, a black-and-white masterpiece about the Japanese occupation of a Chinese village in the 1930s, won the Grand Prix (second place) at the Cannes Film Festival. That propelled Jiang into the pantheon of white-hot Chinese directors...
...Devils on the Doorstep, Jiang's second and, to date, last foray as a director, is set during the Japanese occupation of a rural Chinese village. It was shot in black-and-white with the stark sensibilities of Akira Kurosawa. It tells the tale of a hapless farmer who has two Japanese prisoners dumped on him by the Chinese resistance. He is ordered to interrogate them and deliver a report or face deadly consequences. Caught between fear of the rebels and fear of the Japanese, the farmer hatches a plan of self-preservation that proves disastrous. All the characters display...