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...plot is based on the story of José, a man who loses his memory and identity on the shores where the bodies had once been flung, and his efforts to get them back with the help of the town’s people. According to Natali Alcala ’12, who plays La Anciana, “José regains his memory and his identity through dreaming...
...plot is based on the story of José, a man who loses his memory and identity on the shores where the bodies had once been flung, and his efforts to get them back with the help of the town’s people. According to Natali Alcala ’12, who plays La Anciana, “José regains his memory and his identity through dreaming...
...ideas that constitute the film’s core. But viewers who haven’t read the source material may be left somewhat bewildered by the vaguely serialized, disjointed final product. McCarthy’s book, as spare and angular as it was, remained a cohesive, plot-driven whole. Hillcoat’s film seeks to distill the novel’s essence, and in the process loses some of the details that would keep an uninitiated audience engaged. (Given how well the film works as it is, this is not so much a criticism...
...visuals and the narrative of “Ninja Assassins.” The last time director James McTeigue teamed up with writers Andy and Larry Wachowski—in 2005 for the blockbuster “V for Vendetta”—he had an engaging plot for a foundation on which to construct a dazzling series of cityscapes, underground lairs, and fight scenes. This time around, however, the Wachowski brothers produce the film and leave the writing to rookie Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote the script for last year’s decidedly...
...trying to sell a troop surge solely on national-security grounds. The first is that it is almost impossible to prove that sending more troops to Afghanistan will make Americans safer; after all, al-Qaeda's leadership is in Pakistan, not Afghanistan, and recent history shows that terrorists can plot and strike in Moscow and Madrid and Mumbai regardless of whether or not they have a safe haven in Afghanistan. The second problem with the national-security argument is that it is rhetorically defensive - it defines the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in terms of what American troops are fighting against...