Word: pilares
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...taste for irony. He's tired of swallowing invidious comparisons between his performance in office and his dad's--especially since he was never that fond of the old man. Besides, he has new business to attend to--the recovery of the long lost love of his adolescence, Pilar, whom the beautiful Elizabeth Pena invests with the most touching vulnerability...
...time, especially as a way of muffling differences between its black, Hispanic and Anglo communities. But Sayles wants us to count the costs of silence too--in the baleful distortions it imposes on the people who keep it, in the damage it eventually does to innocents like Sam and Pilar when they are not let in on the secrets it shrouds. Above all, he wants us to understand that when we deny history we grant it a more disruptive power. Sayles is a meditative storyteller, with a tendency to mute melodrama rather than letting it wail. But he is also...
...dirt about his father, spurred on by the discovery of bones and badge belonging to the relentlessly reptilian Sheriff Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson) whom old Sheriff Deeds may have killed. Add to the picture other family mini-dramas--another family's father-son conflict; Sam's high school sweetheart Pilar (Elizabeth Pena) and her family--and there's more than enough for the canvas...
...same ironic vein, Sayles first has Pilar's mother call the Border Patrol upon seeing two "wetbacks" (illegal immigrants across the Rio) and then reveals through a flashback her own frightening nightwade across the river. And Sam is constantly hearing what may or may not be cryptic don't-go-there messages in the stories of those he interviews. (Never know what you might find once you get to "poking around...
Five miles east of Havana is Cojimar, Ernest Hemingway's fishing village, the place where he docked his boat, the Pilar. The town's fishermen inspired The Old Man and the Sea. Last Monday night, from out of La Terraza bar, which he once patronized, a bronze head of Hemingway looked to the coast, toward five young men and the sea. They crawled silently aboard a homemade raft loaded with plastic soda bottles filled with fresh water, canned condensed milk, cheese, knives and fishing equipment. A big tarp was onboard to protect them from...