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...misfortune becomes a complete stranger’s entertainment. In “Cloverfield,” the camera-wielding character often had no plausible reason to be filming, but Romero brings that decision to the forefront in “Diary.” At one point, the protagonist even stays behind in a zombie-infested hospital because he has to recharge his camera. This extreme statement about the character’s priorities is offset by more subtle touches. Throughout the first half of the movie, for example, the filming protagonist’s face is kept...
...think of shooting a film without moving the camera.”The naturalness of her material, Miniucchi said, comes from just observing life, love, and abuse. The result was an honest, character-driven love story that never would have happened in Hollywood.When it came to casting the female protagonist, Miniucchi had only independent actress Morton in mind.“I couldn’t find anybody in Hollywood playing a character like this that you would believe that was an everyday kind of person. Because all the actresses they are very chiseled and beautiful.”Although...
...prison, it tells the story of his involvement in the murder of Frederigo and Enrique Salinas.As in his earlier work, Kertész exhibits an understanding of how a distorted and cruel logic arises out of the inhumane. In “Fatelessness,” the young protagonist Gyuri is nostalgic for the “clearer and simpler” life in the concentration camps. In “Detective Story,” the cold and matter-of-fact style in which Kertész relates the sequence of events that lead up to the Salinas?...
...numbing effects of consumerism, statistics, and history. “Day” does what good literature is supposed to do, that is, not allow us to simplify away life. It deposits us in the most complex theater that exists, the human mind, and from there we watch protagonist Alfred F. Day struggle with the only two things perhaps equally complex, and unstintingly envisioned as such by Kennedy: war and love. Five years may have passed since World War II, but the eponymous Day, former Sergeant and gunner in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, relives...
...journey end with a homecoming? Such broadly philosophical questions permeate the novel—at times to the point of oversaturation—but Schlink’s narrative is also touchingly sympathetic to the characters of this post-World War II odyssey.The novel’s protagonist, Peter Debauer, grew up with his mother in Germany, spending summers at his paternal grandparents’ home in Switzerland. He knew his father through photographs and stories that his grandparents told him; his mother informed him only that his father had been shot during the War. As a child, he kept...