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...baffling shifts in extreme emotions, and as such the film is reduced to a series of dramatically disparate moments.Moreover, the plot’s implications become exceedingly confusing, as the viewer simply cannot reconcile Brawne’s excessive declarations of love—at one point she compares her feelings when she is not with Keats to suffocation—with the poet’s apparent disinterest. Does Keats simply not feel the same way as Brawne? Does the poet’s loyalty or fiscal obligation to Brown simply supersede his love? Sadly, this confusion seems entirely...
...simply bounce back to where it was.” Citing inefficiencies in the University’s library systems and IT infrastructure as examples, Faust said that efforts to consolidate would not only save money, but would also improve the quality of these services. Faust pointed to another instance in which the University was able to squeeze savings by centralizing office supply purchases and printing orders: the subtle differences in ink choice on the Veritas shield featured on Harvard employees’ business cards. “The shade of crimson is far less important than the fact that...
...life. While Griffin has been able to raise a healthy family, his relationship with his two daughters continues the theme of parents as a potentially destructive influence. His growing preoccupation with revenge pulls him away from his family, even causing him to physically lash out at his wife. This point is further emphasized when Little’s first piece of advice upon their meeting is to give himself wholly to his children. Nesbitt’s performance is extremely effective; his tics, shakes, and darting eyes build on one another until he seems to be held together by nothing...
...screened in the West Bank. But whether Mograbi’s work is sympathetic to the manipulation of the Israel Defense Forces, implicitly drawing the audience into a mass protection of the soldier’s war crimes, or seriously questioning the tactics of the Israeli army, the point is, it triggers a consideration of these topics. “Artists always have their own point of view and angles,” says the Consul General of Israel to New England, Nadav Tamir, who co-sponsored the screening at the HFA. “You can?...
...extra-textual subtext.Wild animals are a repeated motif throughout the novel. A tiger that may or may not actually be some sort of digging machine rampages through the city, destroying whole buildings and causing general inconvenience. A pair of bald eagles seem to hunt Abneg, and at one point, a whale makes its way up the East River nearly to Hell’s Gate before dying.This motif seems to speak in general to the control or lack thereof wielded by the invisible powers-that-be behind most of the action in the book. But some of the discrete animal...