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Towards the end of the ad, the tone becomes tritely self-righteous and a shade more revolutionary than one would expect from a traditionally conservative organization. The Council wants "to fight together, as one unified voice." The script-writing continues: "We want you to join us, as we set out on this student crusade..." It sounds like Harvard Square is transforming into Tiananmen, but in reality they're just inviting you to attend their meetings...
...rivals, particularly the folks at ICM, are doing their best to stoke these fears. Says Bill Block, a cocksure young agent at ICM: "This deal? It's like the Oliver North thing -- the full implications weren't brought out." Certainly, sour grapes and not simply righteous indignation plays some role: two years ago, ICM hired one of the Credit Lyonnais officials who was in charge of many of the bank's movie-industry loans during the go-go '80s, and it also happens to be making forays of its own in the ad game...
...self-indulgence of one man or woman comes frighteningly alive, collective, suddenly legitimized, glorious even. What would be individual shame now blossoms into shamelessness. The weak and vicious transfer their worst defects to the larger cause (Greater Serbia, perhaps). Thus does self-pity become selfless and, by this magic, righteous. And thus a brute killer portrays himself as a victim, who is therefore infinitely justified. Ethnic cleansing is merely injured virtue catching up. Nothing is more empowering, as they say, than being a victim. It is the Rolls-Royce of self-justifications, a plenary indulgence. W.H. Auden described...
That's the first and last romantic view of Charlie Kate, a blunt and righteous woman who eats garlic on toast for breakfast, smells of mothballs and ties her "resolute shoes" with 30-year-old laces soaked every Sunday in linseed oil ("My shoestrings," she says, "have lasted years longer than most people can stand each other"). An eccentric who knows as much about Thomas Hardy's novels as she does about cirrhosis of the liver, Charlie Kate is in fact a healing genius who uses herbal cures like evening primrose and Saint-John's-Wort, as well...
...direction and characterizations and in its dramatic arc from bondage to liberation to mute acceptance of fate's bureaucratic whims. For a movie that worms inside a child's hopes and fears, that understands how kids can be both shaped by their family and in righteous rebellion against it, you should see -- immediately -- Leolo...