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...plot seems as simple as the production, which is reminiscent of the televised plays of the 1950s. Addie (Lisa Lucas) is a precocious fifth-grader in small-town Nebraska in 1946. She lives with her grandmother - a moccasin-wearing "character" played with wise, Everygrandma affection by Mildred Natwick - and her stern working-class father, brought to dark life by the legendary Jason Robards in a role of angry middle-aged despair more often found in Eugene O'Neill plays. Addie's mother died after giving birth to her; and her father still carries the pain as well as a bitter...
...transnational racial identities. But though some of the stories gathered in this collection achieve that goal, they appear between unrelated displays of literary pyrotechnics that fail to convey the same degree of moral seriousness, preventing the work from cohering into a satisfying whole.In the title story, Gordimer presents a plot so sparse and a narrative voice so fractured as to seem like a burlesque of the psychological depth that has characterized her writing. Of the protagonist, one “Frederick Morris,” we learn from the narrator in a parenthetical aside, “of course that?...
...sequence, a debater from Wiley calmly but daringly calls on the mostly white audience to do something about racial violence and injustice in the South. Yet the movie itself, which takes place in 1935, is not nearly as courageous as the historical characters whose story it tells.The plot originates in the real-life story of Wiley College, whose debate team rose to top levels under the guidance of the soon-to-be-named poet laureate of Liberia, Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington). Three students (Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Nate Parker), each gifted in their own way, work through the national college...
...language (Dari, the dialect of Farsi spoken in Afghanistan) foreign to most moviegoers; its cast list is populated by no-name actors. Fortunately, the movie largely lives up to the expectations that readers of Hosseini’s book will have. The selling point of the movie is the plot, which chronicles the life of an Afghani boy, Amir, and his best friend, a young servant-boy named Hassan. The two friends endure a difficult parting-of-ways, and Amir and his father must ultimately leave Afghanistan for America when the Soviets invade. Years later, Amir returns to Kabul...
...Tsuburaya was in his early 50s when he finally got his chance to make a monster. He had been working up a plot about a giant octopus that menaces fishing fleets. Then, in 1954, a Japanese trawler inadvertently sailed into the vicinity of a U.S. hydrogen-bomb test in the Marshall Islands. The crew received dangerous doses of radiation, and 500 tons of fish had to be recalled from ports nationwide after a radiation scare swept the country. The incident, coming less than a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, traumatized Japan. Working with director Ishiro Honda, Tsuburaya turned his octopus...