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Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Jamie Murphy/New York
Reported by Anne Constable/Washington and Magda Krance/Chicago
Dini has inherited a certain lack of expressiveness from his father: in the first big scene between him and the girl, Magda(Aniko Ivan), the two snap mechanically at each other. The listless interchange culminates when Dini hold Magda's arm, saying, "I won't let you go." Magda yanks free with a curt "piss off" and walks away...
Like an American Grafitti behind the Iron Curtain, the movie examines its several characters in an Epilogue. This one, though, provides no ironic afterword on the plot. The sexual denouement between Dini and Magda is completely incomprehensible, while the Koves family sings an old national folk song in a vaguely optimistic scene so inconsonant with the rest of the movie that it may have been government-mandated...
...testify," says Brenda Watson, a founder of the West Linn, Ore., firm that makes the anatomically correct dolls. "But what happened to him or her was worse. The only way to protect the children is to go through the judicial system." -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Laura Meyers/Los Angeles