Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1979, more than 200 members of the Baha'i community of Iran, which forms the country's largest religious minority, have been executed for their beliefs, most recently in July of this year. Two weeks ago, prison authorities in Mashhad confirmed the death sentences of two Iranian Baha'is, while Iranian intelligence officers plundered 500 Baha'i homes throughout the country and arrested at least 36 Baha'i teachers and professors in 14 cities, seven of whom remain in custody...
Shot in a wandering, often annoying quasi-documentary style that might be called faux verite, the movie sometimes seems its own slamfest of verbal and visual attitudinizing. But Levin is attentive to the rhythms and politics of street and prison life: shootings that disrupt a conversation, animosities expressed in upended food trays. Gradually, the film's earnestness pays dividends in accumulated passion; its colliding moods--dank pessimism and loopy sentimentality--finally embrace. And it's always nice to see an independent film made by people who aren't secretly angling to produce the next season of Caroline in the City...
...Maybe it's the money. After making $100 million since his release from prison, Tyson owes the IRS $13 million. But the commission doesn't want to be thought of as pushovers. "I want to warn you, from my view, this will be your last chance," Chairman Elias Ghanem told Tyson after he gave him the good news. "You will either conduct yourself in accordance with our rules and regulations, or you will probably never fight again in Nevada." Probably? Man, those guys are tough...
...having a second child (She: "I wanted to have other children with Vili"; He: "I didn?t really feel ready for another baby... She should have told me. I wouldn?t have looked like such a fool"). Letourneau is serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence, and last week gave birth to their second child, a girl...
This responsibility is required of Ray, and it is his struggle that defines both his character and the film. Fortunately, he is helped in this struggle by Lauren Bell (played by Sonja Sohn, also a novice at film). A prison English teacher and poet herself, Laruen hears Ray perform while in jail, in a remarkable scene where he averts a gang fight by performing a poem he wrote which challenges the direction of their aggression towards each other. Once out on bail, Ray seeks her out, and they develop a relationship which, although slightly stretching the notion of love...