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...claim, then, that the nominal distinction between religion and politics ensures that there is no encroachment from one sphere on the other is to deny the practical and very real relationship between religious involvement and political participation...
Second, it is a mistake to pretend that racism and sexism exist only outside the queer community. By failing to address these issues, the organization would be prepetuating within its own sphere the discrimination found in society at large...
Well, as he was in the delicious Wag the Dog, the director is looking for a new venue in which to display the thing he loves best--rough, funny dialogue that reveals the morally equivocal motives of highly dubious dreamers. And for a few minutes at the beginning of Sphere, which is about the exploration of a spacecraft that has been discovered resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, you think he may be on to something...
...problem turns out to be the eponymous sphere the space capsule carries. It's hard and shiny and has a mysterious power to ferret out, and then manifest, the worst fears of those who fall under its spell. If you have, say, a special aversion to sea snakes, then by golly, they're going to start hurling themselves at your face mask...
...question of the sphere's origin is left unanswered at the end of the film--along with a lot of other loose ends--but it's really no mystery. It probably came from the Forbidden Planet, a realm first explored in the classic 1956 sci-fi adventure movie. Its inhabitants had mastered the technique of invading people's minds, prying their darkest passions out of them and turning them back on their victims. Obviously Hoffman's character isn't the only figure involved with Sphere who has a good memory for the classic tropes of dystopian...