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...greatest understatements. The poor girl dismisses Michael’s warning (bad move), and Michael transforms into a gruesome wolf-man before her very eyes. Then, surprise! This turns out to be a movie that Michael and his date are watching. Then, double surprise! It was actually all a dream! How refreshingly über-meta. How astoundingly moronic.At the blissful end of this travesty, I have nothing but sympathy for the girl. I too know what it’s like to witness Michael’s unholy transformation into a monstrosity, but I’m pretty sure...
Harvard’s eccentric aspiring rock-star guitarist, Anthony L. Carbone, ’06-’08, and his songwriter partner-in-crime, Evan Gentler, a recent graduate of Oberlin music college, are more focused than any yuppy dreaming of that final Goldman Sachs interview (yes, ’tis the season to be recruited for an I-bank). The duo aim to make their current rock duo Called and Careless, which Carbone somewhat clumsily describes as “progressive grunge alternative rock,” their life. “The band is my career...
...imagery throughout is so dreamlike and beautiful, if creepy (those with a phobia of overly-realistic dolls and circus performers are hereby warned), and the structure loops back on itself so many times, that it is impossible to tell what is a dream and what, if anything, is real. All the characters are impassive until they are physically attacked, making them impossible to read, which heightens the sense of uncertainty. There are no jump-in-your-seat moments, but the overall effect is profoundly unsettling...
There is a resolution to the question of what is dream and what is real, but it is so strange and unexpected that it simply adds another layer to the already disturbing nature of the short...
...especially those of us from the more comfortable backgrounds, consider taking a slight risk to move beyond our comfort zone and try making an act of true generosity? Don’t you think that we, who at least have had the chance to pursue some of our own dreams, should struggle beside those who never really were given the chance to dream in the first place?What if, for example, we all spent at least a few years trying to do some good as a teacher or community organizer in an at-risk neighborhood instead of going...