Word: malls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shambly, incidental pleasures, Mallrats gives one the impression that as Smith ages, he isn't going to get better--just more so--and that he'll crank out more low-rent, easy-on-the-ears comedies. When Brodie walks into the mall, he exclaims, "I love the smell of commerce in the morning!" The joke refers to Apocalypse Now, but the bet here is that Smith does love the odor of deals. A film studio to him is just a giant convenience store where he can showcase his bright, disposable wares...
...couldn't capture the whole crowd, they were there to remind Americans that even in a time of conservatism and backlash, the business of racism and inequality will not be ignored. The National Park Service initially estimated that the Million Man March drew 400,000 demonstrators to the National Mall, then later conceded the count may have been higher. March organizers say it was more like a million and promise they will go to court to prove it. Whatever the number, it was more than enough to qualify as a critical mass...
That fact would not have come as news last week to the marchers on the Mall. Many of them knew what it means to try against superior odds. Yet knowing that, many would also know that individual transformation has a power that cannot, should not, be denied. Dr. Darryl L. Fortson, a family practitioner from Gary, Indiana, looked over the crowd with admiration. "The task is unifying black men and atoning for the violence and the disrespect we have shown each other,'' he said. "And the disrespect we have shown our women. If we keep focused on that, then something...
...company of only black men moved him deeply. "I went there to support the event, but then I found I was part of the event," he says. "I was taken in, heart and mind and soul." Ever the military man, he was struck by the flags waving in the Mall: the American flag, the black-and-green African-American flag, the Nation of Islam flag. "And all these battlements were just waving and blowing in the wind as the men stood there, ready to do battle within their communities, ready to take back their sons and daughters from the ravages...
...doubtless) starving artists who bare their souls in the five flicks included in the festival all have particular, frequently opaque, obsessions. Rather than plot or acting, "Krazy Teens USA" makes the best use of its own fascination with the culture of Long Island mall-rats gone astray, Although initially engaging, the mutant-weirdo world of "Lick of Fury" eventually plays like a simple stream of sight gags or even private jokes. And "Dienstag, Once Upon a Tuesday" which tracks an adolescent serial killer who succombs to a weekly yen, pulls all the strings of the horror genre so many times...