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...America there's such a thing as the American dream, where if you start from nothing and become wildly rich or wildly successful, everybody applauds. Here, that's really laced with envy and resentment...
...same time, you get a lot of immigrants coming in who don't really sign up for British-ness the way Americans sign up for American-ness. You don't really have a British dream. A Pakistani immigrant to America, after two generations, would probably refer to themselves as Pakistani-American. Here they would just keep calling themselves Pakistani...
...fantastic title sequence. To the tune of Jace Everett's dark country single Bad Things, images of death, lust and religious frenzy flash by. A woman writhes in black lingerie ... a preacher lays on hands ... a Venus flytrap snaps shut on a frog. It's a fever dream of Eros wrestling Thanatos in the middle of a tent revival. Damn! I think. I want to see the show those titles...
...Ponyo, a little fish who wants to become a little girl. In this very loose retelling of The Little Mermaid - really, a dream triggered by a distant memory of the Hans Christian Andersen tale - we see her and her dozens of sisters navigating Miyazaki's notion of the sea. The director doesn't bother much with the usual cartoon bubbles; he trusts the blue-green palette, the gentle undulating of the creatures and the haunting buoyancy of Jo Hisaishi's score to establish the location with the waves of a watery wand. One little adventuress, known...
...picture-perfect Alaskan family home. Palin, who hunts, fishes, and says her favorite food is moose, fits into this community snugly, in a way that many carpet-bagging national politicians can only dream of. And her friends here think the rest of America will fall for her just they way they have...