Word: fantasylands
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That's certainly true of Speed Racer, in which the texture is the text, and it's deliriously dense. Renouncing literal sense (Is the film set in the '50s or today? In America or Britain? Who knows? Who cares?), the Wachowskis have created a fantasyland that is part retro, part nextro. It's a rich, cartoonish dream: Op Art in nonstop, Mach 2 motion...
...Indonesia is an anthropologist's fantasyland. It is made up of 17,500 islands, on which 230 million people speak more than 300 languages. The archipelago's culture is colored by Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Dutch traditions. Indonesia "sucks a lot of us in," says fellow anthropologist and friend Alice Dewey. "It's delightful...
...like Carter, there's no death sentence that can't be ameliorated by running into a wealthy guy ready to spend millions of dollars on a Last Holiday. (The 1950 Alec Guinness film of that title, remade in 2006 with Queen Latifah, is one of many precursors to this fantasyland scenario.) The specific lesson to be taken from this doesn't have much practical application, unless the dying start demanding a double room with a billionaire when they check in for their inoperable cancer surgery. But this movie exists wholly in the realm of metaphor, whose messages stick out like...
...movie judiciously concentrates on Wilson's maneuvering, two decades ago, through a political landscape, in Washington and abroad, that was more clearly defined - remote and relatively innocent, almost a fantasyland. (Consider this: Charlie is a liberal Democrat from Texas.) In focusing on the man as much as the movement, on the process of achieving a goal more than the goal itself, Charlie Wilson's War gets to celebrate an all-American hybrid: wheeler-dealer idealism...
...uninfected colony north of the city, is literally too Utopian to seem either plausible or attractive to a hardened case like Neville. Smith has inhabited the character so fully, and let moviegoers inside with him, that they may prefer going down with him than escaping to some fantasyland that looks like the one in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village...