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Mann read part of the play aloud for the audience, adopting a Polish accent. In the passage, her protagonist spoke about her life before and during World War II and the plight of Jews under Hitler...
...lack of compelling, or serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique actually enacts the content and is the perfect vehicle for conveying the heady, mercurial restlessness of youth. Dazzling is staunchly modern in its aesthetic, repeatedly suggesting the co-mingling of fiction and reality. The protagonist and narrator, a cinema usher with impaired vision, says at one point, “Maybe my mood is influencing your story...
...when both are employed as flying implements for bespectacled preteen orphans, similarities tend to emerge. The broomstick, as many know, is a mode of transportation for Harry Potter, star of the book series by British author J.K. Rowling. The musical instrument is used to similar effect by Tanya Grotter, protagonist of a popular book series by Russian author Dmitry Yemets. Tanya first showed up in August in Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, which sold 100,000 copies in Russia. Like Harry, Tanya is an orphan who resides in a world swirling with magic. Instead of a scar...
...school’s top basketball player. Scott’s luck turns around when his werewolf features blossom and he becomes the most fearsome basketball player around, and an icon at his high school. From here, Teen Wolf basically follows the typical zero-to-hero storyline where the protagonist is eventually led to forsake his newfound popularity and return to his nice-guy status. But a more keen evaluation shows that by the time the movie is half over, Teen Wolf has become...
...plot centers around a videotape that kills its viewers on the seventh day after they watch it. As the film begins, we learn that the niece of the film’s protagonist, a journalist named Rachel (Naomi Watts), has died under very unusual circumstances. Using her investigative skills and instincts, Rachel begins to ask questions about her niece’s death, and hears rumors of the strange, deadly tape...