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Unlike the usual shellacked and blissful blockbusters that cover up reality??s grunge, Ballad is memorable for exposing the true condition of the characters and their world. For those who are willing to face such brutal honesty, this film’s message and vision are unforgettable...
...also conceptually revolutionary: nothing actually happens in the game, which makes its success all the more impressive. Strangely enough,The Sims, which offers players a chance to build and manage households of “people,” is quite similar to the so-called “reality?? programs that have over the past decade brought the simulational aesthetic to the television in a big way. Or perhaps this is not so strange: it should come as no surprise that the blockbusters of the existing entertainment industry (action films, reality television) have close analogues...
...reality television” and “Fox News.” “Objectivity,” like “weapons of mass destruction,” was reduced to a kind of meaningless mantra, employed repeatedly to suggest credibility (and “reality??) where there was none. Now a species of government propaganda stands poised to cast the deciding vote for legitimate news’ expulsion from television’s tribal council: the pre-fabricated, ready-to-broadcast, government-produced news report...
...unique cinema. Bad Education utilizes the typically Almodovarian production schemes, quirky dialogue, ambiguous moral codes and post-feminist politics to create a cinematic space that is more usefully reflexive than his past work. As the film moves toward and comments upon the post-modern “reality?? embodied in Ignacio’s development, Almodovar productively pushes the envelope as he weaves in and out of and ultimately combines a variety of modern narratives that have shaped Ignacio—be they cinematic, queer, performed or socio-political...
...numbers and Haynes’ trademark voice. This album is less jam-oriented than The Deepest End, although Haynes’ love of power riffs (“Lola Leave Your Light On”) is clearly still alive and well. Unfortunately, blues number “My Separate Reality?? sounds so much like the Allman Brothers original “Desdemona” and blues standard “Worried Down with the Blues” that Haynes’ songwriting capacities are brought into question; overall, the songs on this album impress less than those...