Word: sera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that struck me the most, however, is called "Mom Overboard!" and portrays a woman who left the fast track at work to stay home with her kids. Fed up with a child who called the sitter "Mama" and surprised by the "double-edged knife" of the maternal instinct, Sera stayed home with her children--and ended up micromanaging their every waking hour...
Soon after arriving there he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a masochist who is perhaps not quite as smart and tough as she thinks she is, and thus obviously in line for a painful comeuppance. What could be more appealing to her than a relationship with the visibly doomed...
...watch their downward spiral. We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies. Writer-director Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs) places a few opportunities to arrest their course along this pair's path, but Ben and Sera don't notice them, and he refuses to exploit them for dramatic purposes or even for ironic effect...
...siecle et on sera mort...
...sera sera, sang Doris...