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...quirky, Oliver Sacks moments--far from it--and Miller doesn't sentimentalize. She leads us lucidly, almost lyrically, through the neurological origins of the disease, and she doesn't spare us its ugly side, as when her father slams her into a wall in a demented rage. Her performance is an astonishing one, honest and free of wallowing, drenched in remembered pain but at a calm remove from it. When her father's end finally comes, Miller is brave enough to face her relief. "Guilty as I felt, terrified as I was, shamed as I felt for feeling...
...distract him, Ollmann fleshes out Abel and his world with thoughtful details like the way Abel's mother "used to laugh more when we were little but she wears her hair pulled tightly now and preserves everything in pickle jars." In the end Abel comes home to a rage-filled father and an absurd, giant, paper-mache strawberry out in the yard. Symbolism, narrative arc, unexpected details and interesting characters are what make for the best short stories and "Giant Strawberry Funland" qualifies...
...that trait carries over here in such lines as "Nothing in this universe is as great as my love for you." And while Sarandon's wicked witch is campy in a good way, Daniela Amavia, as Paul's power-drunk sister, lacks emotional range; whether in moral turmoil or rage, she looks as if she is ticked off that someone messed up her mochaccino order. The true stars are the sumptuous-for-TV special effects and the Matrix-esque combat scenes. It's hard to get too earnest about any drama that includes the battle cry "Send men to summon...
Greene and Faiman, in the lead roles, both spend most of their time on stage in fits of hysteria or rage. While both do well in their comic moments—Faiman, in particular, plays well against Porter’s lisping Olivia—their drama becomes overwrought and tiring at times. Most of Greene’s lines are delivered with shouting, banging and throwing, which gets to be a little too much in the small space. He seems lost whenever he delivers a low decibel line, often raising his voice towards the ends of lines, so that...
Music has always been an industry, but these days, that’s all it is. From the manufactured rage of groups like Korn and Limp Bizkit, to the greasy puppy love of boy bands, the shameless narcissism of divas like Mariah Carey and the pseudo-bohemian Urban Outfitters rock of the Hives and the Strokes, the product is the same: a few catchy tunes and a sterile, hollow image...