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When we meet John Halder (Viggo Mortensen) he is chaotically cooking a meal with the assistance of his scampering children. Meantime his wife is banging out classical music on the piano - as she does for hours every day - while his incontinent and half-mad mother insistently cries out for help from an upstairs bedroom. Halder, who is a novelist and literature professor, is obviously in need of a little discipline in his life and, since this is Germany in the 1930s, there's plenty of that available...
...Most of us, like Halder, just go along with whatever system is in place. Indeed, the compromises he is obliged to make are generally speaking so minor that he scarcely notices them until it is too late, and their cumulative effect finally becomes inescapable. It is interesting to see Mortensen, normally an expertly rambunctious actor, hiding behind his wireless glasses, playing a dim and fussy man, but to place antiheroism at the center of a film is to invite a kind of indifference that vitiates our involvement and concern for its outcome - which, in any case, is obvious almost from...
...come when the courage of men fails, but it is not this day." - Viggo Mortensen in The Lord of the Rings...
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...vanity project. The documentary centers on the “Slacker Uprising,” Moore’s 2004 tour of college campuses in which he encouraged unregistered voters in battleground states to cast a ballot. With a host of celebrity friends, including R.E.M., Roseanne Barr, and Viggo Mortensen, Moore distributed ramen noodles and clean underwear to consistent nonvoters in the hopes that their support would sway the election against incumbent George W. Bush. The narrative of the film begins straightforwardly. The opening scenes recount the effects of the “Swift Boat” attacks on Democrat...