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...predictability of the plot isn’t the film’s only shortcoming. In one scene, the film more aggressively addresses the audience: at a debate in Oklahoma City, the reactions of the observers divide along color lines, in a way that should provide a funhouse mirror reflection of the movie-watching audience. If the film were shot more bravely, it would make us question our own situation piercingly, ontologically. It doesn’t; there are too many visual cues that tell us, “This is just a movie, this is just like any other...
...They might have carried off the scam, but Darwin, an avid outdoorsman, was, "going stir crazy" trapped in the house, she said. In 2004, the Mirror reported, the couple decided to move abroad. Darwin obtained a passport under the name of John Jones, and traveled to Cyprus and Gibraltar before the couple settled on an apartment in Panama...
...Darwin Canoe Man (Kayak Man doesn't have quite the same ring) Darwin's tale began to leak. Medical experts noted that Darwin's symptoms didn't square with those normally manifested by amnesia victims. But the thread that untangled the story was a photograph that Britain's Daily Mirror unearthed of the couple on the web site of a company specializing in relocating foreigners to Panama, where Anne Darwin settled this fall. She quickly conceded that the snapshot, taken when the couple traveled to the Central American nation to seek housing in 2006, was authentic...
...freewheeling interview published in Sunday's Daily Mirror, Anne Darwin said her husband, gaunt and filthy, materialized on her doorstep in February, 2003, 11 months after he disappeared. Until that point, she told the newspaper, she had thought he was dead - even though he had mentioned faking his death to escape from their swelling debt. "He said he had done it for us so we didn't lose everything, which I know seems rather ironic now," she said...
...Howard’s End” or 1985’s “A Room with a View,” captured the ambiance of the novel with rich historical detail and powerhouse acting. It remains to be seen how closely the script mirrors the book (Wright had significant modifications made to the original screenplay adaptation by Christopher Hampton), but if “Pride and Prejudice” is any indicator, any departures that Wright makes will not be in plot detail, but in mood. Though devoted readers want a mirror image of the novel they know...