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...about his self-interest and that life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Characters self-inflict tracheometries, saw their arms off, murder their compatriots to survive, and still end up dead. “Punisher: War Zone:” Not only does the protagonist get to realize his sadistic fantasies, but the film’s creators realize their own upon the audience, as they cause it all sorts of pain. As USA Today’s reviewer put it: “At one point, the Punisher is asked who punishes...
Film director Ari Folman is probably the only man in Israel whose cartoon image is better known than his real face. On the streets of Tel Aviv, Folman - a tall, grizzled figure - passes by unnoticed. But his animated self, as the protagonist in the film Waltz with Bashir, has seared itself onto the Israeli imagination...
...This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth anniversary.The novel was one of the first major works to bring Western readers the experience of an African man under colonial rule from an African perspective. It tells the story of the unsympathetic protagonist, Okonkwo, a volatile patriarch who attempts to reassert his status and masculinity against a tide of circumstances out of his control. Achebe’s most extraordinary feat in the novel is his ability to communicate Okonkwo’s poignant experience to Western audiences. But Achebe?...
...that to try to contain the artist’s life in a commercial biography would only trivialize this man’s actual experiences. Kaminski’s early career is the stuff that iconic stories are made of. In fact, as Kehlmann traces the development of his protagonist, Kaminski lives up to the stereotype of the idiosyncratic artistic genius, whose success does not hinge on talent alone, but is shrouded in a certain inexplicable mystique. Initially, the author humanizes Kaminski by depicting the character’s creative struggle as akin to a pursuit of identity...
...Harvard professors become advisors to President Bush. Eight years later, Harvard professors have a panel and say Bush’s economic policy messed everything up. Cake is served. Plot Overview A stressed, yet hopeful narrator named “Drew” relates the fable of a troubled protagonist named “Harvard.” Harvard is caught in a series of natural disasters and suffers greatly. Ultimately, a mysterious good Samaritan named “We” teaches Harvard that Puritan moderation and blind faith in one’s superiority will...