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...Tidus, the protagonist, sounds like the lead singer of a suburban boy band. If there are four flavors of hero, Tidus is of the “irreverent teen” variety, though he’s more often chubby-cheeked crybaby than wise aleck. His native metropolis is commercialized and techno-cool, with five-story video screens broadcasting statistics of fictitious sports over glittering golden skywalks. Tidus matches: his caution-yellow clothing evokes some fantastical line of clubwear...
...story takes place in Harvard’s own Physics 16, an advanced mechanics course for first-years, and centers on a battle of wits, or at least a battle of problem sets, between the hero, Steve, and D.B. (short for Deathrage L. Bergman), the archetypal pain-in-the-ass section participant. Late in the semester, Steve finally builds up the courage to call D.B. an idiot, and the two agree to compete in a problem set competition. Of course, no musical would be complete without a love story, and Dong delivers one between Steve and his Physics 16 classmate...
...right to go back to homes that are now part of Israel proper. On some level, Arafat may understand that all these compromises must be made before Palestine is born, but they won't happen on his watch. At this point he's much more interested in being a hero than in being a leader...
...Lily, Toshiaki's world is a soul-less wasteland in which hero worship is the only way out. The icon in Blue Spring comes in the form of Kujo (Matsuda Ryuhei), the cool, aloof, recluse of the school. If you were reborn as a camera lens, you'd want to be pointed at Matsuda: he's rapture, he's angelic, he's to-die-for. And Aoki (Arai Hirofumi) does. Aoki's role in the relationship goes from subservient to rebellious. Kujo spurns Aoki and the latter, stripped of his sense of worth, makes the ultimate sacrifice. In the final...
...similar descent takes hero Kakihara, (Japanese renaissance everyman Tadanobu Asano) to a blissful death in Ichi the Killer; in the modern Japanese cinema, death seems the only way out. This all-star gathering of evildoers unites ultraviolent comic artist Hideo Yamamoto, from whose manga the film was created, and screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into...