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Acting Dean of the Institute Mary Maples Dunn introduced Rich's reading by asserting that the lecture series represents the "breadth and depth of what the new Radcliffe Institute will maintain." The series aims to feature writers, scholars and professionals from a wide range of fields in the arts and sciences...
Rich's return to Radcliffe after 50 years proved to be a celebration of both poetry and the Radcliffe Institution itself. Dean Dunn commented that Radcliffe would now serve as keepers of Rich's legacy, as her collected papers are archived at the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger library on the History of Women in America...
...trailers for Unbreakable show Bruce Willis as David Dunn, the only survivor of a disastrous train wreck, and Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, who seeks Dunn out to offer an explanation for his good fortune. No mention is made of comic books or their applications to real life, which appears to be Shyamalan's thesis and purpose for making this movie, and a metaphor debated frequently throughout the film. The twist ending of this film, a trick that Shyamalan became famous for in The Sixth Sense both supports and distorts the metaphor, and leaves the viewer unsure about whether...
...storyline seriously. Some of the film's most comic lines come at scenes with the most drama and the laughter in the theater disturbs the somber mood, while many short scenes seem tangential at best. The acting in the movie, including Robin Wright Penn and Spencer Treat Clark as Dunn's wife and son, is solid and the movie is technically impressive despite its holes in coherence...
There is no gripping plot in Unbreakable. Rather, the movie appears to be more of an intellectual journey asking questions about what is possible. The believability of Dunn's survival and subsequent discoveries is not debated extensively, but instead is used as evidence to ascertain why such a survival is possible. The entire middle section of the movie is devoted to Dunn's deciding whether to believe Elijah's hypothesis about the accident. Shyamalan does an effective job of bringing the viewer along with the characters; the evidence Dunn considers and the conclusions he reaches are clear and seem logical...