Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stylistically, the cinematography is very similar to what we saw in The Shawshank Redemption: tight close-ups, wide establishing shots, innovative camera angles. Darabont is a master of filming grand, sweeping epics in relatively confined spaces, and he stays true to form here. The pacing is deliberate, allowing the audience to fully experience all the tensions and hardships of life on Death Row. Still, Darabont is careful not to waste any screentime on dull moments; there's plenty of action to offset the unusually long running time. As the film progresses, the tone remains predominantly serious (befitting a story...
...light, and his healings are nothing short of miraculous. His touch cures Edgecomb's urinary tract infection and revives a dead Mr. Jingles, and his power is so strong that light bulbs in his proximity shatter before the sheer concentrated energy. After each healing, the harmful spirits, in the form of a black swarm, are coughed up and released from Coffey's mouth. (Willing suspension of disbelief? Sure, why not.) Convincing his fellow guards of John's powers, Edgecomb arranges to have John secretly brought to the terminally ill wife of Warden Hal Moores, who is suffering from a brain...
...doubly disgracedfor his failure as a father to help his own daughter and for his abuse of the child-like student. Luries reaction to the incident is the opposite of Lucys. She resigns herself to living in the harsh, concrete realities of the present without resorting to any form of escape. She seems to accept the violence done to her and Petruss encroachment on her land as a kind of indirect punishment for the historical wrongs committed by her race. To Lurie, this is at first incomprehensible. He still needs to have recourse to avenues of escape from realityphysical pleasure...
...Wages are generally in the form of money which is generally in paper form, or in coins occasionally, and more oftenly in the electronic form which is in a bank somewhere and by definition these forms are not living. In the past wages were paid in sheep and camels and things that were in fact living, but I think we moved beyond that and I don't think we should like go backwards towards the whole barter economic systems...
Fifty episodes of the free-form talk show are aired each week, and Carson says there is no censoring...