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...city assigned 10 special undercover teams to monitor the Tokyo lines with the highest incidence of assaults. Uniformed officers also patrolled major Tokyo stations, such as Tokyo, Ikebukuro and Shibuya, where posters were hung reading "Groping is a crime" and "Groping can ruin your life." Policewomen gave self-defense demonstrations, and TV commercials featuring local high school students were aired to help spread the word...
...bigger picture. Typically, getting cooperation from witnesses has proved difficult for police because many are on their way to work or school when the incidents occur and don't want to be late. There has also been a degree of resistance among victims, as false accusations in Japan can ruin reputations on both sides. Police are concerned that many women choose to withstand the abuse rather than report it, especially as molesters' tactics have become more organized and harder to detect. If this trend continues, "it could degrade the environment in which women can securely ride trains," says the police...
...waisted skinny jeans. Very 1940s. Lonergan: I’m looking for some chunky gold jewelry. I think it’s coming back. Dagogo-Jack: I avoid trends. FM: The weather in Cambridge sucks—rain, sleet, snow. What do you wear when the elements threaten to ruin your night? el Habashy: I don’t care about this question. Polino: One really cool thing you can wear when it’s shitty out. This year, it’s going to be a knee-length Issey Miyake jacket. FM: Okay, let?...
...plotline, lack the power of either. The script by Pamela Pettler, who also worked on Burton's Corpse Bride script, doesn't support Acker's ambition for profundity. Unless this is your very first postapocalyptic story, a line like the one Number 2 delivers - "Technology has been the ruin of us" - is more likely to induce an eye roll than anything else. In movies, our technology is so often the ruin of us. We got that message from Stanley Kubrick way back when, and we get it now. But couldn't filmmakers let something else ruin us for a change...
...worked as a character because his depression and desperation perfectly highlighted the suffocating workplace tedium in which he lived. Joel, by contrast, simply comes off as whiny; there seems to be a gaping disconnect between his actual problems and his emotional priorities. As his company barrels toward financial ruin, Joel’s complaints about his lackluster sex life seem utterly removed from anything that should matter. The real dissatisfaction comes at the end of the movie when it becomes clear that the characters don’t change or learn from their experiences. Joel’s happiness...