Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought it was very much to the heart of the matter, very encyclopedic and in that sense very uplifting," said Perry D. Caminis...
...astronaut at Gattaca Corporation, where he works as a janitor. To this higher end, he buys the assistance of a Valid, Jerome Morrow (Jude Law), who, though crippled by an accident, possesses a spectacular set of genes. Jerome supplies him with blood, urine and other samples of relevant body matter to pass the genetic tests, and Vincent "becomes" Jerome Morrow, admitted to the ranks of the Gattaca elite. Jerome's brilliant record qualifies him to lead a mission to one of Jupiter's moons, attracting the amorous interest of a fellow Gattacan, Irene (Uma Thurman). But the scheme hits some...
...poetic lyrics and thundering guitar are superbly matched by such shots as Jarmusch's cut between the hands of some audience members and the band jamming it up under amazing lighting. You don't have to be a fan of Neil Young & Crazy Horse--or of Jarmusch, for that matter--to enjoy these sequences...
...highlight of the evening was reliving old favorites, and lang didn't disappoint in this arena either. After a rendition of "Wash Me Clean," a song about "tarnished dreams," lang joked, "I promised that, no matter how tough things got, we would never sell that song to a detergent company!" Her description of the distance between two lovers in Chris Isaak's "Western Stars," from her country album Shadowlands, was also magnificent. But the audience's unquestionable favorite was her version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," in which she lamented at what seems sometimes to be a universal female condition...
Bones on section reading: "I ask myself 'does it matter if I don't do this?' No. Why would you read something if you just heard...