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The principal, and eerie, pleasure of McEwan's telegraphically terse novel is how quickly the agreement between Linley and Halliday turns murderous. For the aftermath of Molly Lane's death inexorably destroys an enduring friendship. Halliday is offered photographs that Molly had taken of Foreign Secretary Garmony in transvestite regalia...
Noting their opposing backgrounds, Marilyn I. Cohen, director of a clinic providing abortions, and Karen Swallow Prior, a high school principal and longtime sidewalk counselor with Operation Rescue, said that if they could find areas of agreement on this issue then other people should be able to as well.
This mutual investigation culminates in a discussion of emotions, where Charlie insists that the principal difference between humans and "brute beasts" are feelings such as love and hate and anger. By the time of their departure, it is evident that the sea creatures, although unaware of the word "emotion", have...
All this--not to mention the film's paranoid take on big, secretive government--is familiar stuff. Nor are the principal characters unknown quantities. Under pressure, Smith's attorney demonstrates the kind of stamina and physical agility that people confined to desk jobs find within themselves only in the movies...
But rather than All the President's Men, I'm watching a pallid remake of Groundhog Day, the umpteenth reliving of Bill Clinton's worst 24 hours. And unlike Bill Murray, a small-market newscaster who finally gets it right, no one in this drama is changing for the better...