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...focuses on the title game between Russian champion Anatoly Sergievsky and American challenger Freddie Trumper. The plot is loosely based on the 1972 World Chess Championship battle between chess phenoms Victor Korchnoi and Bobby Fischer. “Chess” chronicles the competition and the politics that run parallel to the match, as well as a romantic plot involving Trumper’s second, Florence Vassy, and Sergievsky. Suddenly, chess isn’t so straightforward, and the characters become pawns in a game with mysterious players. Despite the title of the musical, “Chess really ends...
...chair exclusively devoted to food?’ There was a great division in the room.”Sokolov compares the birth of food studies to the emergence of Women and Gender Studies and Black Studies as legitimate disciplines. “As I recall it, a parallel argument was made for Black Studies,” he says. “Whereas it was true that there had been distinguished work done in Black Studies, without having a real structure, it wasn’t being given a fair crack. People weren’t really thinking about...
...Martin strays too far from his car, the liquids will automatically mix and blow him up. Similarly, when hacking into computer systems, Martin’s friend extraneously quips, “You want to see the invasion plans for Iran?” In another parallel to “Quantum of Solace,” the plot centers on the hot topic of environmentalism. In this case, the bad guy tries to manipulate environmental leaders to turn the planet’s trash surplus into personal profit. You might think that these elements would develop into some sort...
...Foundation's name carries unfortunate echoes of Li's 2001 movie The One - an execrable film, which borrows from The Matrix to an embarrassing degree. Its plot - Li plays a cop saving the world from a version of himself who arrives from a parallel universe and desires to become a god - is doubtless some sort of comment on the struggle between egotism and responsibility. But it's far better to think of the One Foundation as so called because of its essential idea: that if every able person in China were to contribute one renminbi (about 15 cents) once...
...film is the way it contrasts youth, innocence, and friendship with the violence of the Holocaust. The horrors of the Nazi concentration camp are made all the more atrocious when placed against the simplicity of Bruno and Shmuel’s relationship. The two boys live a parallel, yet drastically dissimilar existence. The audience is acutely aware of the irrational divisions of society and how they create these two tangent and feuding worlds. The fence, symbolic of the separation produced by hate, however, is easily circumvented by those who don’t know how to hate yet.Despite a seemingly...