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...second cut, “Shine Over Babylon,” opening with the languidly conversational, almost flippant sort of vocals (more lazy recitation than melody) that were the hallmark of her number one hit “All I Wanna Do.” But here, again, the subject matter has a deeper bottom. There’s an allusion to the “seven hills,” presumably of Rome; a couple stark rebukes to capitalist greed (“We celebrate the golden cow / Praise the bloated bank account”); and an invocation...
...open to question, as well as other aspects of the film. The title of the film, “En la ciudad de Sylvia” (“In the City of Sylvia”), suggests that “Sylvia” is not the main subject; the man’s presence in the city matters more. Guerín used the word “flâneur,” a term used to describe a “stroller” or a person who observes the city, to characterize the man and woman?...
...crowd surfing. As the band plays on a stage lined by flailing arms and hands, the camera randomly freezes the action into what resembles Warhol-esque snapshots. Yet these stills only remind the audience that The Bravery will probably never reach the epic proportions that made Elvis a legitimate subject for pop art. Interestingly, the video marks lead singer Endicott’s directorial debut. It’s all coming together now. After some lame head-bobbing, Endicott crowd-surfs, or rather his superimposed, orange-tinted head digitally slides across the “crowd.” This...
...tabloid, I can’t help but feel uneasy when a movie portrays a young girl who doesn’t even seem remotely affected by her own pregnancy.Maybe I’m just more into passion and drama, but I think most people would agree that a subject like teen pregnancy doesn’t need annoying apathy in order to be funny. I hope someone makes the movie I first described someday and gets its own Oscar noms.If, on an outside chance, “Juno” does manage to win an Oscar I hope...
...that an appropriate subject for kids? Which kids? And whose? A 6-year-old? Of course not. But some teens are ready to empathize with killers in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Stranger--assigned by high schools, which have greater coercive power than even Viacom does. Others are barely ready for young-adult fiction. Dexter is not The Stranger, but it's not Saw either. Decency protests, however, don't make such distinctions. Killers are killers. One slice fits...