Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Asserting, "This film is an experiment in faith," Zahedi demonstrates this belief in a higher order by filming extemporaneous situations as they unfold. But despite his film maker's constant reiteration of his belief that "What happens happens for a reason. Everything has a meaning," the neurotic and nervous director, who has often been called the Iranian-American Woody Allen, refuses to yield to Fate...
...disparity between this confession and Bobby's initial speech on his faith in God reflects the schizophrenic quality of the movie which produces a dizzying effect, also revealing the ill-suited merger of this amorphic style and Bobby's own controlling impulses. Questions to the crew like, "Should I just let [Amin] be in a bad mood?" further illustrate Bobby's incapacity for letting God take over...
...suddenly recognizes his father's gift to D, as a generous and non-judging act. Erasing his former anger towards George for encouraging D.'s drinking. Bobby realizes how beautifully accepting his father can be. Tearfully concluding that this must be the miracle he hoped for, he restores his faith in God and in the success of his movie...
...randomly gunned down at Christmastime in 1967, and Ives spends years withdrawn and numb. Unlike Macon Leary, whose child suffers the same fate in Anne Tyler's Accidental Tourist, Ives eventually finds quiet hope not in the arms of a quixotic woman but, less fashionably, through his faith in God. A faith that turns his indifference into compassion rather than hate. Never didactic, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a spare, moving meditation on the spiritual life...
...have full faith that HERO will keep on running," Koch said...