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...subtitle is misleading. Denis Johnson’s Seek is not so much a collection of journalistic efforts as it is a fragmented memoir, diffracting observations of fringe elements at home and abroad through the prism of the author’s opinions. He travels to biker revivals, Alaska, the American Southwest and Liberia. He recounts his brief Boy Scout experiment in the Philippines. He marvels at the intersection between his values and those of violent militia members. And while Johnson always remains the outsider—a stranger attempting self-understanding through observing the natives—the strength...
...fame of the book, a tale of guilt and retribution told through a prism of frank sexuality, is such that many directors wanted to film it, but Nonzee was the producer's first choice after the success of Nang Nak. Jan Dara, the curious but ultimately doomed main character (played by Thai TV actor Eakarat Sarsukh), is abandoned from the start of his life: his mother dies during childbirth and his father brands him a bastard. (The boy's first memory of his father is watching him have sex with a nanny.) At 13, he is thrown...
...hand-over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...
...Lonergan specializes in smart comedy-dramas of urban contemporary life, sprinkled with laughs but exploring serious moral issues, usually through the prism of a determinedly quirky central character. In "Lobby Hero," that person is Jeff (Glenn Fitzgerald), a woebegone night security guard who must decide whether to help his boss cover up the possible involvement of the boss's brother in a murder. Things get complicated when the case comes to the attention of two cops, a female rookie and her veteran partner, who are grappling with some ethical issues of their...
...right? Tell the truth--it sounds so basic, so simple, such a small part of a filmmaker's art. Yet again and again, the glitterati of Southern California manage to take the world we inhabit, shake it around a little and then filter it through a peculiar, politically correct prism. The result can be viewed in any movie about Washington politics ("The American President," "Dave," "The Contender," and so forth), in which the evil, cigar-smoking and preferably slightly deformed Republicans are defeated by a noble, principled, sexy liberal who just wants to pass a gun control bill...