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...Ronnie. Before long, he has accumulated every pop-culture photograph of Ronnie and has stored them an album that he touchingly labels Bostockiana. It is during Giles' intense periods of fantasy, that Hurt's superb acting conveys to us just how deep Giles' emotions extend. John Hurt adopts vacant facial expressions and daydreamy tones of voice that prove this is more than a crush. At one point, when Giles is supposed to give a lecture on some esoteric element of literature, he instead delves into the topic of acting. As he describes what makes a good actor, we see Giles...
...surrogate son in Phillipe, and not always convincingly. His voice seems to express only one consistent emotion: suppressed rage. Whatever he says, he says so deliberately that it seems that he is attempting to keep himself from having, at the very least, a violent tantrum. The fact that his facial expressions often seem to suggest the psychotic killer rather than the mourning father does not help, nor does the fact that he appears to be in the same "vacation mode" as everybody else in the cast...
...pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
What the NBA should do is sit Shaq's butt on the bench by suspending him a few games. Not only is publicly criticizing officials a no-no, what's this crap about breaking somebody's "facial structure"? Has he seen the video of Kermit Washington leveling Rudy Tomjanovich? Does he get a kick out of that...
Before he continues to threaten players with facial rearrangement, complain about the refs, or affront the rules of grammar, he needs to get in the gym and shoot some free throws...