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...trying to pressure Ahmedinajad to retreat, the West risks making him politically stronger; he can portray himself as a determined and indomitable leader who stands up to the mighty and malign forces of the West. The more the West makes him out to be a villain, the more heroic he will seem to his domestic audience. Don't expect him to back down anytime soon...
...story? Not Brangelina, nor Naomi Watts and her cybergorilla, but this true fable of domestic devotion among Antarctica's emperor penguins. For months, while the mother forages for food, the father struggles to keep the egg safe in a -80°F chill. This French documentary, for which its heroic makers deserve the Légion d'Honneur and cups of steaming cocoa, became a $77 million sleeper hit in North America. Now that it's winter, watch the film again on DVD, and be warmed...
...intent on their mission, but the psychological burden is crushing. And that is the point: this new form of warfare, imposed by Islamist fanatics-and utilized by Iraqi extremists in response to the U.S. invasion-is a sapping wound to a civilized society. The notion that there are heroic sociopaths like Jack Bauer who can carry the fight without severe psychological consequences is a fantasy. The flood of Iraq war veterans showing up at hospitals with post-traumatic stress disorder is testimony to that. The moral necessity to confront the terrorists is clear. But the war is going...
...declined to paint a portrait of Yasser Arafat. Early last year, the board of Hakawati, the Palestinian National Theater, canceled The Last Hour, a play in which a prisoner newly released from an Israeli jail holds a dialogue with his own impotent penis - a far cry from the typical heroic portrayals of prisoners in previous Palestinian art. The playwright, Mazen Saadeh, describes the fate of his play as a prime example of the conflict between political oldsters and the new generation. "This new movement is another door to our country," says Saadeh, 45. "I don't watch the news...
...1930s of Little Zhang, a cute 12-year-old boy feeling his way through an unfriendly world. But the resemblance to Pinocchio ends there. After Japanese invaders shoot Little Zhang's grandmother in the back, the boy seeks revenge by joining an underground Red Army detachment. He moves among heroic Chinese patriots, sniveling collaborators and sadistic Japanese. The finale comes with Little Zhang helping blow up a trainload of Japanese soldiers and receiving a cherished reward: a pistol with which to kill more Japanese. "I thought about including one sympathetic Japanese character, but this is an anti-Japan war movie...