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Redbelt is like every boxing picture you ever saw: a gifted, morally principled, rather innocent fighter discovers that the real world is full of crooks and shysters. The fighter reluctantly confronts those who would sully his name and game, wins some sort of conditional victory over them. And gets the girl besides...
...manner whenever the spirit moves him. But the LA demi-monde he's exploring (often with his shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu somehow remains trapped in genre conventions. It's still basically a boxing picture, not essentially different from dozens of other movies about life...
Prefrosh weekend came and went and today, the Class of 2012 will commit to attend Harvard. But they will have done so with relative uncertainty as to what sort of education they will receive. When they arrive in the fall, they will be given the choice between the highly criticized and poorly administered Core curriculum, or being the first class to enroll in General Education...
...Moyers, who seems to be spending the rest of his life over-atoning for his service as Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam spokesman, occasionally betrayed an anachronistic liberal masochism in the interview. Indeed, Wright tried to balance his "God Damn America" sermon with the acknowledgment that you can say that sort of thing in America, "whereas some other places, you're dead if you say the wrong thing about your government." But instead of saying, "Amen, brother," Moyers replied, "Well, you can be almost crucified for saying what you've said ... in this country...
...people and expect it never to come back on you." Twenty years ago, the response of too many Moyers-era liberals would have been to try to understand Wright's anger-he surely does have a historical beef-rather than condemn it as distorted and dangerous. It was this sort of thinking that helped make the Republicans the dominant party of the past 40 years. The left believed it was all right for people like Wright to condemn white America but it was "blaming the victim" to criticize the antisocial behavior-the crime and family disintegration-going...