Word: moralisms
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...never lets us rest comfortably with our preconceptions. An imperious nun (Cherry Jones) hears suspicions that a popular priest (Brían F. O'Byrne) at her school has been abusing a young boy; in spite of his fierce denials, she hounds him to step down. A triumph of moral doggedness or a shameful injustice? In a tight 90 mins., Shanley's work packs more complexity, humanity--doubt--than plays twice its length...
...thriller pieces feel assembled rather than organic: this from The Manchurian Candidate, that from Pollack's own Three Days of the Condor, the rest from the Robert Ludlum oeuvre. And the issue of whether a genocidal dictator will be killed doesn't have much emotional weight. Nor does the moral question--Can a person do good by killing a bad man?--mean a lot when a star is pointing a gun at a defenseless supporting player...
Coulter conveys an aura of privilege, wealth and--above all--certainty. "Would that we all could have the political and moral clarity that seems to come so effortlessly from Ann Coulter," wrote an admiring Lisa De Pasquale of the Luce Policy Institute last year in the conservative publication Human Events. But can it be effortless? One theory about Coulter is that she is less Joe McCarthy and more a right-wing Ali G, acting out a character who utters what the rest of us won't. ("That led him to masturbate into [White House] sinks?" she asked in 1999, when...
...would be easy to assign a moral to this story—the amazingly selfish “be good to your friends all the time, because you never know when you might need them” certainly applies—but the real strength is showing that there are no clear morals in real interactions. There’s just life and death, leaders and followers...
...because with her condition, what happened to her, the disagreement within her own family. But those kind of difficult family situations are issues to be resolved in the family, and when they’re not, that’s what courts are for. I might add, the overriding moral principle is it should be the family and not politicians who decide...