Word: heroisms
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...order to reach his audience, Spielberg had to focus on some of the positive aspects of the Holocaust, namely an exciting story of heroism. But Spielberg does not fabricate anything, and he does not omit anything either. The movie graphically displays mass shootings, the liquidation of a Polish ghetto and the gas chambers at Auschwitz...
...mannerisms: the clipped elocution, the run-on sentence, all the pensive ahhs and umms. But with age and stardom, he has discovered how to be still. He knows he can do less and be more. Audiences will study him like a weather-worn statue for hints of darkness, heroism, meaning. Like Stevens, he learned to serve, and to seek greatness in serving...
...fitting that a tunnel which links one side of the city to the other, which connects the towns on the North Shore with those on the South, would be named after someone who, through his own heroism and talent, gave the city a common bond...
...heroic tracking of other people's demons in an endless action-adventure serial. But movies don't have to be only about the pursuit of a one-armed man. They can also be about chasing the dragon tail of filial responsibility -- isn't that a form of everyday heroism? The Mexican hit Like Water for Chocolate proved that American audiences can respond to stories about love and marriage, food and family. The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet display this same wisdom: that we never stop being our parents' children, and they never stop being ours...
...other pivotal casting choice was Carver. In contrast to Hurt, who conspicuously struggled to seem effeminate, Carver comes across as a naturally fragile man fighting with every ounce of his being to be dignified, streetwise and tough. He gives the role a true heroism, and his periodic vaults into fantasy seem respites rather than utter retreats...