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...wives think they're dead and marry someone else. All these motifs appear in the script that Anders Thomas Jensen wrote for Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish film Brodre, of which Brothers is a nearly scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, Americanization. Except for a few stunt exercises, like Gus Van Sant's Psycho and Michael Haneke's remake of his own Funny Games, I can't think of a movie that so closely adheres to its original. (The new film's only capitulation to Hollywood dogma is the way it reduced its characters' ages from about...
Sheridan's movie is like a reverent revival of a famous play, but one that is an improvement on the first version. Brodre is a nicely judged, finely acted film, and of course it was there first, but the new picture has a more impressive cast and a director who is sensitive to just about every nuance of character and situation. Tommy at first seems a malingering loser, blaming his situation on everyone but himself - his stern father (Sam Shepard) and even Sam, who loves him and sticks up for him - and when Sam is reported dead, Tommy typically thinks...
Maguire, in hero roles like Spidey or indie dramas like this, has always been a thoughtful, watchful actor whose giant eyes seem to be monitoring humans from outer space. Sam's eyes see horrible things in Afghanistan, and when he comes home, he sees something even more threatening: two people in love, one of them his wife. As in some science-fiction parable, here it's the children who sense a mutation in their daddy - to them he's now an alien creature - a foreboding that is complicated by their growing affection for Tommy. Sheridan has shown before, especially...
Morales sailed to victory thanks largely to that indigenous cohort, which is concentrated in Bolivia's Western highlands and makes up about two-thirds of the country's population. Like Hugo Chávez, his left-wing counterpart in Venezuela, Morales has lavished unprecedented social programs on the poor, including free medical care, stipends for new mothers and the elderly, and a massive program for literacy that includes payments to low-income families who make sure their children attend school. "Evo knows what it's like to be like us," said Ilda Condori, an indigenous voter waiting outside a polling...
Despite the energy nationalization and Morales' strident anticapitalist rhetoric, Weisbrot adds, foreign investment is higher now than it was under many of Morales' predecessors. Much of that success was driven by the decade's abnormally high prices for commodities like natural gas, and it was hardly expected from a man who, like Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, did not attend college and concedes he didn't know what inflation meant before he became President. "When Morales admitted [during a visit to the U.S.] that it wasn't until after his election that the concept was explained...