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...women wear crimson lipstick and blood is sold at the equivalent of coffee bars - I'll have a double-frappuccino hemoglobin, please. Set in 2019, the movie has a retro-future look, naturally indebted to Blade Runner, but which the Spierigs and their design team have brought to artful life on a less than lavish budget, with cool blues and grays complementing the vampires' pallor. (You'll get another retro-future landscape next week in The Book of Eli, directed by another twin-brother team, Allen and Albert Hughes.) Made in Australia back in 2007 for not much money...
...their ecosystem parable, the Spierigs show they have minds that can invent a plausible society, and quite the eye for decorating their imaginary landscape, but no gift for bringing individual scenes and characters to life. The movie gets logy in its middle sections, and the sound recording makes it seem that everyone spoke into steel drums. Most of the actors are like plasticene puppets on a stop-motion movie set; their creators were so dazzled by their skills at art direction that they forgot to animate the figures. In standard-narrative terms, Daybreakers suffers from tired blood. No question...
...fact, when I chat with women in the region, I can tell them from personal experience that life does change and that once progress starts, it can develop much more quickly than they might expect. No one would claim, of course, that the position of women in the Middle East in general is one that inspires confidence. But across the region - and often defying Western preconceptions - the battle for equality is making gains. (See pictures of the changing roll of women in Saudi Arabia...
...come from establishing their own businesses, was a dominant theme in my conversations. As women in Europe and the U.S. have discovered, having your own salary or company isn't just a matter of raising living standards for your family. It also gives you more control over your own life, more say in your society and more opportunities. All of us - whatever our gender - have a stake in helping women in the Middle East achieve this ambition. Societies will be healthier and stronger if women and men work together to address their problems. I believe the prospects for peace will...
Paradoxically, Merkel's life under communism may have helped when it came to starting a political career as the Iron Curtain began to crumble. She knew how to navigate around blockages and when to keep a low profile. Her rise to prominence went all but unnoticed, except by the rivals she deftly derailed along the way. Elected to the first parliament of the reunited Germany, she was appointed a Cabinet minister by Chancellor Helmut Kohl just one year later. He called her das Mädchen, "the girl." She was used to sexism. "There was no real equality...