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Throughout the movie, Stone cannot resist indulging his overt, slap-in-the-face style. Has this man never heard of subtlety? One of the many instances occurs when Mickey comes to save Mallory. The entire episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes...
...batterer takes time to evolve. Often a nice guy at the start, he tests the waters with a slap here, a shove there. Every abusive incident that is accepted or ignored encourages him to continue. The trick is to stop the abuse when it is still in the slap-and-shove stage, even if it means ending a marriage and breaking up a home. Potential victims would do well to heed the words of my grandmother: "Hurt me once, shame on you. Hurt me twice, shame...
...some deep, queasy, Freudian level, we all know this. Even in the ostensibly "functional," nonviolent family, where no one is killed or maimed, feelings are routinely bruised and often twisted out of shape. There is the slap or put-down that violates a child's shaky sense of self, the cold, distracted stare that drives a spouse to tears, the little digs and rivalries. At best, the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another -- generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate and rage and shame...
...Kate and Linda and Christy -- is that they are a congenial lot. Their life seems to be one long slumber party as they giggle together, exchanging their joys and disappointments, their Marlboro Lights, their Isaac Mizrahi miniskirts. But the young women signed to Models Inc. are more fractious. They slap one another around; they refer to one another as bitches. At their kindest, they share beauty secrets: hemorrhoid cream, one girl magnanimously informs another, reduces puffiness around the eyes...
...stands, young and old can watch the Cup purely for the art and athleticism of soccer. Crowds rivaling those that assemble for Big Ten football games have jammed themselves into stadiums all over the country. Hopefully, all those fans will slap their rears into new seats in Atlanta...