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...Battle of Stalingrad a sharpshooting shepherd (Jude Law) picks off dozens of Germans. So the Nazis send their best sniper (Ed Harris) to kill the killer. Not so much a war movie as a western with a shoot-out every 10 minutes, Enemy is the big puffy drama we expect from the director of Quest for Fire and The Lover. There's a stolid, almost Stalinist cast to the compositions and a drably desaturated palette--apparently Russia was so poor in the '40s that it couldn't afford full color. But Law, sexy and crafty as ever, and here with...
...blood boil. In the world in which I was reared, the word hero was reserved for people who performed lifesaving feats at great personal risk or who laid down their life to protect their country. But thanks to the media, "hero" now describes anyone who can throw a football, shoot a puck or, as in this case, drive a car really fast. GARRETT LINDGREN Carmel...
...Santee, Calif. Charles Andrew Williams, 15, allegedly opened fire from a bathroom at Santana High, killing two and wounding 13. WARNING SIGNS Williams was bullied, a pot smoker, trying to fit in. He told at least a dozen people, including one adult, that there would be a shoot-out. When he later said he was joking,they believed...
When I was a teenager growing up in Arkansas, I stored my 12-gauge shotgun under my bed. I took it out when I went with Dad to shoot clay pigeons. That wasn't back in the 1950s but rather the late '80s; even in that recent decade, I wasn't considered an outcast. Lots of kids drove to school with rifles they had forgotten to take from gun racks over the weekend. A teacher might cluck disapprovingly, but no one called a SWAT team...
...kind who merrily body-slam their opponents without really hurting them? Or was he acutely aware of the damage he was inflicting? Likewise, we may not get the satisfaction of knowing if, across the country in California, 15-year-old Andy Williams truly understood what it meant to shoot and to kill when he opened fire on his classmates in that Santee school bathroom...