Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Theologians make a distinction between natural evils (earthquakes, cancers) and man-made evils (murder, the Holocaust). When you heard the news of Flight 800, did you think mechanical failure? Or jihad? Whatever brought down the 747, its 230 passengers were just as dead, and just as far beyond caring...
...know that the mentally ill--paranoid schizophrenics, for example--hear menacing voices speaking from unlikely sources (harmless strangers, inanimate objects), or they read malignant meanings into random events, or they think the very furniture will rise up and murder them. Horrors like Flight 800 tend to nudge the sanest minds into the demoralized routines of paranoids. They grow jumpy, irrational. Such familiar rituals as air travel turn sinister...
...Time to Kill is a likable--maybe even lovable--movie. These are admittedly strange words to apply to a bristling melodrama that begins with the brutal rape of a young black girl and proceeds to the murder of her redneck assailants by her father, then to his trial, during which a revived Ku Klux Klan employs the full range of its all-too-familiar terrorist tactics as it tries to prevent justice from being done...
...always sort of set the pace of cultural orthodoxy and it was the first college called godless," Monroe said. "We had four suicides and a murder last year. We are a college that needs to be honest enough to hear all possibilities about hope and meaning. And maybe in doing that raise the level of dialogue in classrooms at and far beyond Harvard...
...fine, resorting only once or twice to awkwardness to feign emotion. Despite the rare slow point (run-of-the-mill stories do come up, after all), Sayles is too honestly interested in filming his characters' story-telling and story-acting for the audience to become restless. As a relaxed murder mystery, a view of smalltown politics, and a not at all taxing study in intergenerational relations, the movie is well worth a look and should not be left in the dust of its bigger-footed, ham-handed cousins the blockbusters. In short, the movie's pace and generational eye tends...