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...this visually arresting picture however, is that its disturbing aesthetic too often overwhelms Mark Protosevich's underwritten screenplay, which is really nothing more than a pedestrian serial killer thriller at heart. Yet so much of Tarsem's imagery - such as the first haunting glimpses of Lopez as a seductive slave to subconscious - leaves an indelible impression on the mind. He may not capture the artistic grit of Seven or the psychological intensity of Silence of the Lambs (the two films he's most obviously trying to emulate), but his roller-coaster ride through a psychedelic dream world demands...
...year-old boy told of having his fingers cut off by a slave master. He did not cry as a 32-year-old woman talked about how her baby son had been ripped out of her arms as she was forced into bondage...
...classical Freudian therapy. I was flummoxed. Because I liked the woman, I set to work remaking myself according to her outline, but midway through my self-improvement drive, she dropped me cold. I was trying too hard, she said. My question to her was, Why would any man slave for riches, cultivate snobbish friends and lie down twice a week on a shrink's couch except to impress some woman? She couldn't answer this...
This realization undermines the centuries-old myth of Judaism as severe and unforgiving, a slave of Pharisaic ritual, as opposed to the grace and charity of its progeny religion. Lieberman will not dethrone Shylock, still the single most influential Jewish figure in Western culture, for whom the law is pitiless law. But Lieberman's prominence and practice will illuminate the little-appreciated fact that Rabbinic Judaism is an attempt to take a very stark document--the Bible--and, by interpretation and adaptation, make it habitable for fallible human beings...
...American Dream--not the American Dream that politicians talk about but something closer to the American Daydream, the fantasy of suddenly becoming enormously, improbably rich. If my experience is any guide, what Americans daydream about is not acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars themselves. For the average wage slave, a believable fantasy in which he becomes, say, a computer mogul is too difficult to construct, and making it at all persuasive requires him to imagine himself to be as dorky as computer moguls are. It's much simpler to daydream about inheriting money...