Word: fogged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG Directed by Vadim Perelman Starring Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo...
...this is O.K. Given good lighting and quick cuts, the performers look just fine. But lack of clothes does not necessarily lead to greater truthfulness. Indeed, it can be argued that the tender, fully clothed encounter between Ben Kingsley and Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo in House of Sand and Fog tells us something profound about their relationship. The same way with the (also clothed) bathtub embrace between Albert Finney and Jessica Lange in Big Fish. On the other hand, the buck-naked romping of William H. Macy and Maria Bello in The Cooler is just as informative. Their bodies...
Morris divides The Fog of War into 11 sections, each examining a different lesson to learn from McNamara’s life. But the lesson that best explains the film is one that Morris leaves unstated: Actions and the people responsible for them are not as easily explained as one may think...
According to Morris, McNamara emerges from The Fog of War neither as the devil that some claimed he was, nor as a man free from responsibility for great loss of life...
...defense admits, “I’m very proud of my accomplishments … [but] I made errors.” However, he goes on to argue that error in war is unavoidable: “We all make mistakes. What ‘the fog of war’ means is that war is so complex that it’s beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables...