Word: realism
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...rays, a girlfriend who shows up on her doorstep (with kids) to take refuge from a violent lover, a government bureaucracy that takes away her housing allowance the minute she earns a little extra income. This made- for-TV movie has more authentic feminist spirit than Murphy Brown, more realism and heart than The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, and more plainspoken charm than any TV movie seen in the U.S. in years...
Even if the production does not aim to create the illusion of realism, too much declaiming instead of speaking makes the play sound forced and unnatural, as if the actors want to be really, really sure we get the message. Fortunately, this is less of a problem in the second...
Batman Returns could mark a happy beginning for Hollywood -- not because it might make a mint but because it dispenses with realism and aspires to animation, to the freedom of idea and image found in the best feature-length cartoons. Most directors think pictures have to be anchored in the narrowest form of reality: the one that Hollywood has presented since the dawn of sound 65 years ago. Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars...
...latest album, O.G. Original Gangster, is his best and most balanced. Ice-T's vivid writing and rich delivery detail life on the streets with his trademark realism and humor, but the sometimes tragic consequences of that life are also laid out. On New Jack Hustler, which was nominated for a 1992 Grammy, he sketches the dilemma of a dope dealer...
This is not cowardice. This is realism. The U.N. troops refuse to immolate themselves doing a job that they inherently cannot do. It is the kind of realism that America could use to pierce some of the fantasies that have arisen in U.S. thinking about the post-Soviet world. The chief fantasy is that the U.S., indeed the world, can now rely on "collective security" and its agency, the U.N., for its safety and security...