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...feel like it has been, as people used to say, "ripped from headlines." It instead has about it something of the air of a big, rich, very old-fashioned novel, telling the far-ranging story of two boys, one of them rich and well-favored, the other a servant in his household, growing to manhood in an increasingly violent world. The film is full of chaotic incident - one of the boys is gang-raped (an occasion for considerable overheated press comment a few months ago), the other, as an adult, witnesses an adulterous couple stoned to death. It also features...
...maneuvering their own kites as they swooped through the air. It is a pretty game, but one that also hints at the ferocities that will follow in this film. Once it is over, the kids ran madly through the streets to retrieve the beautiful object they had downed. The servant boy, Hassan (Ahmed Khan Mahmidzada), had no superior in this activity, and it is while pursuing a downed kite that he is raped by bullies, a crime Amir (played as a child by Zalenia Ebrahimi, as a grown-up by Khaled Abdalla) secretly witnesses without attempting to intervene. A terrible...
...channel the novel’s characters to the screen. The story begins on the Tallis estate on a summer day in 1935. There, 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a fledgling writer, witnesses and misinterprets a flirtation between Cecilia (Knightley) and Robbie (McAvoy), the son of a servant. The day—and the first half of the plot—ends tragically, with a crime and a wrongful accusation that will alter the course of all their lives. The visual composition of the estate scenes is stunning, and the spectacular cinematography remains consistenly impressive throughout the entire...
...reformers may have arrested their slide into irrelevance with yesterday's victory by Anson Chan, a widely known ex-civil servant who has refashioned herself as a champion of universal suffrage. According to returns reported Monday, Chan won about 55% of the vote in a by-election to replace Ma Lik, a prominent pro-Beijing legislator who died in August...
...have to be a master of yourself,” he says, “before you can be a servant of others...