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Courtney Hunt is a spare writer and a very objective director. Her film is all show, no tell. It doesn't whine or speechify or make liberal-minded, quasi-political appeals for relief of its characters' hard lives. She lets us come to care for Ray at our own unforced pace, and Leo plays superbly in that patient vein. There's nothing overtly heroic about her as she plods forward under her burden of her small-scale dreams. She's not cynical, but she's not expecting much, either. She's just knowing and accepting of what fate, good...
...Chahine's derision toward fundamentalists goes back at least to Cairo Station, where he portrays them as comic relief: when they see dancers gyrating to rock n roll, the clerics mutter, "God protect us!" and "All these new-fangled ideas lead to Hell!" But Chahine was also a nationalist. His 1963 bio-pic Saladin, about the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, found a clear connection between Saladin's uniting of North African and Mideast Arabs against the Christian Crusaders and Nasser's formation of the Egypt-Syria United Arab Republic to fight Israel. (Saladin was played by Ahmed...
...government. But he also stresses that one of the things he hopes the city can do with the federal aid is reform the reckless culture of home-buying by setting up tools like lender databases and buyer workshops. "This has to become an educational process as well as a relief process," he says...
Rosemond agrees. He's already envisioning rules for the federal aid when it reaches Miami Gardens - such as prohibiting refinancing with adjustable-rate mortgages and requiring 30-year fixed loans in order to be eligible for relief. He also hopes to establish rent-to-own programs, providing landlords with incentives to give house and apartment renters the option to buy their units once they've saved enough and built a strong enough employment and credit history. "We need people to rent longer before they buy houses, but we also need renters to feel like they have a stake in those...
Residents like Harvin, however, don't have the luxury of looking that far ahead. When told about the new federal relief, she said it was the best news she'd had in years. "A lot of us in this community haven't even recovered yet from the 2005 hurricanes," she says. "Then the housing mess started hitting us, and you take into account we're all strugglin' to buy food and gasoline. Seems the least they could do." Americans should know by Christmas whether that will be enough to preserve the quality of life in Miami Gardens and countless other...