Word: presentism
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Similarly in the play, there is a balance between songs and monologues. The monologues are more serious and present the facts of life, while the songs sound more optimistic as they reveal the character’ emotions...
...Native American works in an art museum alongside the works of Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley will help illustrate that these marginalized cultures do indeed merit appreciation and that the European masters are not the only artists entitled to aesthetic consideration. At the very least, it will present the viewer with the opportunity to experience the art of civilizations whose cultural output is traditionally relegated to the ethnography museum in order to permit an honest comparison...
...group sets out as their younger selves, reliving their past. Fearing the butterfly effect, though, they attempt to recreate events exactly as they had happened before. Throughout the entire film, the actors are shown in their mature, present-day bodies, despite everyone else in 1986 seeing them as adolescents. Director Steve Pink occasionally cuts between the actors and their younger reflections in mirrors in a sight gag used to great effect, for instance, reminding us of Nick’s ill-advised Kid ‘n Play haircut. Jacob, however, having not been born in 1986, remains...
Craig Robinson’s Nick, married in the present day, is also a very funny character, especially during a cocaine-fueled recap of the “Terminator” series or in a lewd phone call to his then nine-year-old wife. He also manages to pull off a surprisingly listenable cover (or is it a debut performance?) of The Black-Eyed Peas’ “Let’s Get It Started?...
...dispense with the heavy, emotional baggage of the film as quickly as possible, which eventually bogs down the film’s pacing. Jacob, having not been alive in 1986, spends the majority of the film running around frantically, trying to figure out how to get back to the present...