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Most Latin American film-makers can't stand slick Hollywood formulas. But two of the best Latin movies now playing in the U.S. and Europe benefit from at least one Tinseltown trick: good timing. Brazilian co-directors Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund's City of God, the brutally realistic saga of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting...
...action film aspiring to psychoanalytic significance, The Hunted—the latest from The Exorcist director William Friedkin—begins with a quote from the Bible, as interpreted by Bob Dylan: “Oh God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son.’” The plot follows accordingly, setting peace-loving L.T. Hallam (a mountain man reminiscent of Jack London, played by Tommy Lee Jones) on the trail of Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), when the latter—a Special Forces superman scarred by his service in Kosovo?...
...CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction. City of God screens...
...thought I’d learn more about moral reasoning from this than from class,” said Sophie L. Gonick ’05, who skipped out on Moral Reasoning 54, ‘“If There is No God, All is Permitted’: Theism and Moral Reasoning...
...quoted the Quran and highlighted a verse he said is less-popularly taught: “God has not changed the condition of the people unless they change it themselves...