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...must come to terms with his demise. Although she suffered his abuse for years and has developed a keen resentment for the old man as a result, Chu finds herself, in his absence, wandering aimlessly around the palace is the days before her eventual suicide. Lim's portrait of this depressing symbiosis is but one way in which the dichotomy between slave and slave owner is blurred, and often, transcended...
...Horse makes it clear why he doesn't need to answer the question. Although the movie has a very stylized look--Jarmusch uses an array of both color and black and white film stock, including super 8, 16 mm, video, and even animation--it is anything but a pretentious portrait of one of the world's most unpretentious, hard-rocking bands...
...conventional wisdom, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has cracked open the soul of America with a movie about a man with a 13-inch penis. Boogie Nights has been described as an expression of the mythological American dream, as an interpretation of two extraordinary American decades and as a portrait of a uniquely American family. It is all these things in the capable hands of Anderson, who is rightly lauded as a virtuoso. Anderson's feat evokes an interesting question: Why does the modern essence of our country lend itself so nicely to the symbolism of hard-core pornography...
...wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp and chuckle...
...sudden, like the rest; and all of a sudden, with a turn and a smile, and a requested pursing of the lips, your session was complete and your could leave the overheated, overwhelmed, overexcited, tension-filled room of Harvard fourth-years posing for their final portrait...