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...their wives: the bitter, aging George and Martha (played by Simon N. Nicholas ’07 and Chelsey J. Forbess ’07, respectively) and the younger, more hopeful Nick (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) and Honey (Elyssa Jakim ’10). As the plot unravels, so does the twisted and at times violent relationship between hosts George and Martha. Nick and Honey stay well into the night, quickly lured into their volatile, yet fascinating world. Wilner and set designer Todd Weekly hope to make the audience part of the experience by physically integrating them...
...main couples—protagonists Mirabell and Millamant and villains Mr. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood—are played expertly and each have a few great comedic moments. However, they are by and large stuck with the thankless task of advancing the plot, while other characters reach ever-greater heights of outrageousness around them...
...Most of the time, the acting serves to smooth over confusion about the details of the plot, rather than exacerbate it. However, in some scenes with Mr. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood, their emotions seem to have been picked at random...
...about the harshness of the techniques, it's about smart people. We don't believe in torture. Look, this is a country of laws. There's authorization. There's legal opinions. We did this by the numbers. We corroborate this stuff. We have other sources. There are plot lines that are broken. They give us enormous access and understanding of al-Qaeda, insights into operatives that we didn't know about. Enormous value to us. Huge insight. You want to talk about connecting dots, you connect dots as you have never before...
...over the abuse of the media, the government’s disregard of loyal soldiers, and why it is human nature to watch violence. If Wiper added these themes to broaden the appeal of the film, he made a grave mistake. In complicating a once forgivably undeveloped and unrealistic plot, he exposes the film’s ridiculous holes and obvious weaknesses. For a film to accomplish such depth, it must provide at least some basis of reality. Does Wiper really expect his audience to believe that the FBI couldn’t find the island the prisoners were fighting...