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...brings home his supremely normal fiancee (Tori Spelling, surprisingly good in this sugar-cookie role) only to confront the ghost of his past in his sister, "Jackie O" (a delightfully demented Parker Posey), who sports an obsession with the JFK assassination among her myriad kooky charms. What makes this setup more than just a gimmicky grab-bag for originality is the successful mix of the familiar and the disturbing in the composition of the characters. --Kamil E. Redmond...
...only at the end--when the precarious balance between courtroom drama and culture clash falls--that things fall apart. The climax of what promised to be a fulfilling logical legal setup is mired in the Chinese-English conglomeration to be easily understood. The end sequence consists of swirling and complicated plot ideas, none properly explained (at least not in English). Although the punchline of the scene is suitably shocking and unexpected, it will elicit more of a "Huh?" than a satisfied...
...supremely normal fiancee (Tori Spelling, who's surprisingly good in this sugar-cookie role) only to confront the ghost of his past in his sister, "Jackie O" (a delightfully demented Parker Posey), who sports an obsession with the JFK assassination among her myriad kooky charms. What makes this setup more than just a gimmicky grab-bag for originality is its success in mixing the familiar and the disturbing in the composition of the characters...
...long-term effect of this isolation appears to be a generation of juvenile delinquents. "The whole thing has much to do with the setup of elephant society," says zoologist Marian Garai, a Swiss-born South African who has been studying the relocation. Under normal circumstances, she says, a dominant older male elephant is around to keep young bulls in line. For the newly arrived youngsters, however, no such role models were provided, and Garai believes this may have had a profound effect on the elephants' psychology...
Like the modern jazzmen who were his contemporaries, he helped define cool for postwar America. He had hoboed across the country as a teenager, got into movies taking anonymous horse falls and survived a setup drug bust (he described jail as "just like Palm Springs without the riffraff"). Stardom, he implied, was just another of life's little absurdities to be sardonically observed and fatalistically played out. As the best of his screen characters did. There's a marvelously stunned stoicism in his confrontation with the inner furies that haunt him in Pursued. And when he turned to outright psychopathy...