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...Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California will be raising $3 billion to advance the cause.) And once the science reaches a certain point, most legislators will undergo a conversion. It's one thing to oppose research that still looks like a barely conceivable long shot. It's another thing to stare at a child with juvenile diabetes or sickle-cell anemia and tell him he can't get a cure developed with embryos by a biotech firm in California...
Essentially structured as a love comedy, the picture’s form ultimately proves elusive. At its center is the theme of the dangers associated with a mad pursuit of the dream vision of love, a vision so compelling that it can blind us to the good things that stare us in the face. Consequently, it cannot quite conform to the demands imposed by the artifice of comedy...
...hole in the center of this mythic history is Farrell, who looks overwhelmed and diminished by the burden of carrying an epic movie on his bulked-up shoulders. Jolie, however, is right at home as his mother. A sorceress lolling among snakes--the sexiest Gorgon, whose stare melts the screen--she spits out seductive invectives in a crypto-Carpathian accent; Olympias may be Philip's wife, but she is Dracula's daughter. And Jolie inhabits her with an awful grandeur. The archetypal housewife furious at her husband's philandering, she tells Philip, "In my womb I carried my avenger." Jolie...
...Repulsion, listening as her sister has sex in the next room. Anything more explicit is, to Nichols, just clinical. "Sex is very powerful as part of a fantasy, part of what glues you to someone, part of what makes life with one person the great adventure. But to stare directly at it is to be wasting most of what's available in drama and in film: the resonances, the things you don't see but that affect people's behavior...
...sister is coming in the next room. That's sexy." Anything more explicit is, to Nichols, just clinical. "Sex is very powerful as part of a fantasy, part of what glues you to someone, part of what makes life with one person the great adventure. But to stare directly at it is to be wasting most of what's available in drama and in film: the resonances, the things you don't see but that effect people's behavior...