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However, “Country” is able to avoid the formulaic structure of based-on-true-story legal dramas through its strong performances and innovative screenwriting. As the narrative oscillates between the protagonist??s heartbreaking personal story and an intense courtroom battle for justice, the tension and drama engulfs the audience...
...parents? It seems the directors shamefully saw the lyrics as two-dimensionally as their artwork. “Laika” is not quite as insulting to its source material, and at times its grotesqueries (most notably the skull/sperm-headed mother of young Alexander) suit the psychological torture in the protagonist??s unstable mind. But the whole collection leaves you with a burning question: why can’t a band with evident aesthetic refinement (see their website or any of their album artwork) put out a music video that’s at the very least watchable? Staff...
...main character, Mitchell Hundred, is the mayor of New York and the world’s only superhero—in fact, the world’s only political superhero. Its protagonist??s remarkable abilities are an interesting wrinkle rather than the center of the plot. A civil engineer by trade, he stumbles onto a Generic Glowing Object (itself an instance of deus ex machina present in nearly every superhero’s origin story) that explodes and inscribes curving scars on his face reminiscent of the metallic tracery on a circuit board...
...good postmodernists, we know that “reality as it really is” doesn’t really exist. The strength and the weakness of this film may be precisely the extent to which it is seduced by its protagonist??s own rhetoric and rhetorical figures. Benegal doesn’t fail to convey that he has great enthusiasm and passion for the subject he has chosen. But this passion seems, too often, like the zeal of a propagandist and not enough like the reflection of an artist open to the ethical difficulties...
...good postmodernists, we know that “reality as it really is” doesn’t really exist. The strength and the weakness of this film may be precisely the extent to which it is seduced by its protagonist??s own rhetoric and rhetorical figures. Benegal doesn’t fail to convey that he has great enthusiasm and passion for the subject he has chosen. But this passion seems, too often, like the zeal of a propagandist and not enough like the reflection of an artist open to the ethical difficulties...