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After witnessing the murder of her family and villagers by Salvadoran soldiers in 1981, Rufina Amaya, sole survivor of the El Mozote massacre, might have withered. Instead, in defiance of the governments of the U.S. and El Salvador, which denied the atrocity, she supplied graphic details to anyone who would listen. Her accounts prompted front-page stories in the Washington Post and the New York Times and ramped up congressional debate over U.S. aid to El Salvador. In the end, the U.S. continued to support its ally, which in the '90s passed a law exempting the army from prosecution...
...asks each of the film’s characters for help. Tension escalates to a fever pitch as Sara questions the identity of her father while the school trip looms nearer. The past is a context, rather than a subject, for the film: Zbanic does not resort to graphic violence in order to hint at the atrocities of the war. We see it reflected in the women’s lined faces and the men’s gruffness. We hear about it in songs sung in the school bus and learnt at home—the English title...
...Field’s oeuvre—emotional women on the brink of considerable change. There is no detail omitted in this journal of a woman’s death, and we must watch the cast deal with home nurses, morphine, chemotherapy, and excessive vomiting. The horrifying and graphic scenes of illness are juxtaposed with comedy that sometimes works to raise the mood—but usually comes off as contrived. Each of the four adult children copes with the mother’s death differently, and the movie focuses on their interactions with each other as they make...
...Planted firmly in the realm of cartoons / video games / comic books to which 90% of American movies aspire, the Miller graphic novel (with coloring by Lynn Varley) is a faithful, if jizzed-up, version of the 479 B.C. battle of Thermopylae. The action and much of the dialogue are taken from Herodotus' near-contemporary history...
...site AutoAdmit—an online message board that claims to be “the most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world” on its site. After eliciting a number of responses from other anonymous users, the thread turned into a graphic and offensive description of her body. “I think it’s totally sexual harassment,” said Avanessian, a student at Harvard Law School. “They are doing this to gay men, to women, and it’s just awful.” The postings...