Word: effective
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...weightiness, its sense of bleakness and numbing repetition, is a deliberate goal. After all, this is a film about the horrors of war and of persecution, and forcing the viewers to share in the deliberately dehumanizing environment forced upon the camps' victims could be--in theory--a powerful aesthetic effect...
...Horst at work in the concentration camp--endless vistas of two ragged, small figures stumbling across the whiteness of stone or snow in their meaningless work--evoke echoes of the theatre of the absurd, of postmodern anguish a la Waiting for Godot. But it seems unclear why this effect is courted in the first place. The movie's ultimate aim appears to be a statement about the sublime aptitudes and beauty of the human soul, and the existentialist numbness of its intermediate scenes, striking as they may be, are working against this effect...
Bent's cumulative effect is an extremely heavy, painful and unhappy one. For those who feel that this is an appropriate effect for a film that chronicles atrocity, it will undoubtedly be a fulfilling experience. But those who prefer to be entertained as they are educated may find something lacking. In the end, for better or for worse, it's hard to imagine a more depressing way to spend two hours...
...starts with those tedious lay ups at the MAC. Such dedication is novel to Harvard basketball, and is both the cause and effect of success...
...addition to having a commitment to the humanities, Miller was also deeply concerned about the quality of higher education. Cognizant of cultural issues, she worried about the dilution of instruction and the effect of cultural issues on academia...