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...Decalogue 5"--one of the best films in the series--was later expanded into "A Short Film About Killing," also playing at the MFA. A young lawyer defends a youth, Jacek, against a sentence of capital punishment for his brutal killing of a taxi driver. In the opening, the lawyer's words--"The law should not imitate nature, the law should improve it...For whom does the law avenge?"--emerge, disembodied, from a black screen. From the beginning, the emphasis is on the nature of justice. The film does not excuse the youth's crime; he is shown first strangling...
Jurors in the O.J. Simpson case examined photographs ofblood stains found inside the Ford Broncothat prosecutors contend the defendant drove home after knifing to death his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The photos showed stains all over the driver's side -- on the door, above the door handle, on the carpet, the steering wheel and the instrument panel -- plus four red stains on the plastic console between the front seats. Prosecutors have told the jury thatsophisticated DNA testsfound that the blood in the Bronco matched samples from Simpson as well as the two victims...
...Friends. It revolves around three convent-educated girls: Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), cautiously quirky; Nan (Saffron Burrows), incautiously ambitious, whose effort to seduce her way into the Protestant gentry brings her to near tragedy; and, at the center of the circle, Benny, large, plain, smart and, in Minnie Driver's performance, utterly luminous...
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...late 1950s, and Benny (really Bernadette) Hogan (Minnie Driver), a plain, awkward girl from a small village, is ripe for a coming-of-age experience. Going off to college with her lifelong friends Nan (Saffron Burrows) and Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe) is just the thing. On the very first day, she meets Jack Foley (Chris O'Donnell), who enters with a caress from the camera that practically screams "love interest." Sure enough, Jack falls for Benny, preferring her to the beautiful but cold Nan and the charming, impish Eve. Benny's own characteristic--in this movie, nobody has more than...