Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give you it's not a classic, but then neither is Jumping Jack Flash. The Net shows the WWW on the cutting edge. The technology out there is mind-boggling, and the incredible things that happen in the movie actually could happen. Jack Devlin (Jeremy Northam), the evil, evil villain, gets into the California Department of Motor Vehicles computer system and turns Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) into someone else who has a criminal list as long as, well, you know--it's long...
...tragedy. "Most Americans had never seen these FBI people -- the FBI agents and the hostage rescue teams -- and it helps them make up their own mind about whether they did the best they could. There was an overwhelming sense, even among most of the Republicans, that David Koresh was evil. The hearings established in the minds of many people that the agents did not shoot first, and that the Davidians, not the FBI, started the fire...
...those writings Pagels finds the sources of the durable Western practice of demonizing one's opponent, whether they be Reformation Protestants or gay activists or the Evil Empire. "It's important for those of us who grew up with the Jewish and Christian traditions to know how they structure the way we think,'' she says. "Especially when we are thinking politically and socially...
Pagels thinks her concerns are central. "Associating heretics, pagans and Jews with the powers of evil has been a massive theme in Western history. If this is minor, I wonder what moral struggle is all about." Her own struggle is to persuade us that Satan is often just a container that we fashion to hold our own poisons. We have met the Old Enemy...
...while, director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out) keeps it all working smartly, like a serrated knife on the viewer's nerves. And the creature creators, H.R. Giger and Richard Edlund, make Sil in her alien mode look variously like evil pudding and a spiny octopus. The monster isn't the problem here; it's the humans, Sil's pursuers, who make Species turn specious. One of them (Forest Whitaker) is an "empath" who can intuit everything about Sil--her moods, motives and fears--everything except that she's standing right behind him. Alfred Molina, playing an expert in cross cultures...