Word: realism
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...feelings. It is a perfect match for these damaged, rather hostile people. That they can break through their barriers, which are cultural as well as psychological, and find a few moments of happiness is plausibly managed by Alison Tilson's script and played with a kind of offhand realism by Collette and Tsunashima. They have the rough grace to act surprised by this turn of events. When the landscape exacts its revenge for their happiness, when Sandy faces the consequences of her carelessness, we are surprised by the intensity of our feelings. Japanese Story is a simple, austerely told tale...
...drive to explore is part of what makes us human, and exploration of the past has led to unexpected glories. Dreams must be tempered by realism, however. For the moment, going to Mars is hopelessly unrealistic...
...benevolent deity. Chance encounters repeatedly save the day, and the film's chase-sequence finale is brought to a safe conclusion by a meteorological miracle. Kon seems to have synthesized his hard-boiled instincts with an almost Disney-like sense of providence, arriving at a kind of magical realism...
...reputation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famously begins as a flashback. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Is it memory that makes possible the magic of Garcia Marquez's magic realism? A world retrieved from the past operates by more flexible guidelines; the laws of gravity are loosened, the rules of cause and effect can be bent...
...Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties get any traction? Call it the revenge of the Third Way. Back in the late 1990s, leaders like Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sold a pragmatic blend of fiscal realism and social justice, dubbed the Third Way. Outdated ideological divisions between right and left were dead, they declared, and a new kind of practical, effective politics would take their place. Now politicians from both sides of the old divide are converging on the middle ground - and as a result they...