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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...formats the film in a similar style, choreographing the careful intersections of multiple plots and characters through common dependencies. The writing and acting manage to successfully illustrate Gaghan’s complicated themes. George Clooney quietly reveals the vulnerability of his character, disillusioned CIA agent Bob Barnes, without showy heroism. Playing against his suave, macho type, the former Sexiest Man Alive gained over 30 pounds for the role and seems as trapped in his body as his character is trapped by the machinations of shadowy government archetypes. Matt Damon, as energy analyst Bryan Woodman, tackles technical jargon with authority while...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Syriana | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...Romanian Folk Dances,” Shubert’s “Unfinished Symphony,” and an original composition from Derrick L. Wang ’06. “Peter and the Wolf” is a symphonic folk tale of heroism, originally written as a child’s introduction to the orchestra, in which each character is represented by an instrument—Peter by the strings, the wolf by the French horns, and the bird by the flute. The music, however, is still sophisticated enough to be enjoyed by all ages. That?...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Peter and the Wolf | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

Gaghan relies on Clooney's agnostic heroism to lure viewers into his maze. When they get there, they will find not a conventionally satisfying movie but a kind of illustrated journalism: an engrossing, insider's tour of the world's hottest spots, grandest schemes and most dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Thriller That Thinks | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...name of religion the taking of a single human life or sadistic destruction on a larger scale. Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with human values, which an impersonal and technologically driven Europe cannot offer them. Materialism and consumerism don't inspire them to heroism. Radical Islam on its face seems to supply to alienated young Muslims the model of a "civilized" society. It is most unfortunate and dangerous. Valentine Iheanacho Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...right-thinking person can justify in the name of religion the taking of a single human life. Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with human values, which an impersonal and technologically driven Europe cannot offer them. Materialism and consumerism don't inspire them to heroism. On the face of it, radical Islam seems to supply alienated young Muslims with the model of a "civilized" society. It is most unfortunate and dangerous. Valentine Iheanacho Rome Today's young European Muslims are angry, but no more so than young Tibetans, South Africans or East Timorese. Still, those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Generation Jihad | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

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