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...valid stylistic choice, it might be interesting to note that von Trier operated the camera himself. We are seeing the story through his eyes, and it becomes a search for the object of the film or a way of looking: a subjective experience most mainstream films repress. For this film, he had no rehearsals; he just told his actors to say their lines when ready and do what was right for the character. He'd then shoot it (no surprise then that Bjork had a harrowing experience, and said she would never be able to make a film again...

Author: By Dan Cantagallo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Start Spreadin' the News: Björk! Björk! | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...most people try to counter feelings of listlessness with activity, motion, movement. Yuppies seem to take this to an extreme and counter feelings of extreme ennui with extreme activity-i.e. violence; repress your IKEA-fueled angst long enough and it'll explode in your face like a computer at midnight on New Year's Day 2000. Aggression seems truly to be the key to defusing the ticking time-bomb of yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...most people try to counter feelings of listlessness with activity, motion, movement. Yuppies seem to take this to an extreme and counter feelings of extreme ennui with extreme activity-i.e. violence; repress your IKEA-fueled angst long enough and it'll explode in your face like a computer at midnight on New Year's Day 2000. Aggression seems truly to be the key to defusing the ticking time-bomb of yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Yugoslav leadership has largely tried to repress the ethnic Albanians, but, according to Crawford, when the Kosovar Liberation Army arose a year ago, it gave Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic an excuse to use actual ethnic cleansing campaigns...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: International Experts Explain Kosovo Crisis at Study Group | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Meanwhile, most Americans have a strong dislike for non-religious people; only 18 percent of Americans would allow atheists the basic right to assemble in a community's civic auditorium. But somehow, perhaps by a miracle, the nefarious liberal elites still manage to repress religion and exclude it from the political dialogue and the legislative process...

Author: By Derek C. Araujo, | Title: A Dire Threat to Religion? | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

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