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...rap’s most storied and complicated figures—a movie trying to give Biggie life after death—“Notorious” is rather lifeless. The toughest dilemma that biopics face is deciding where to crop the canvas of their subjects?? lives, and “Notorious” solves this problem by deciding not to crop at all. After opening with Wallace’s death, the film breezes through his childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, his stint as a drug dealer, his meteoric rise to fame...
...qualities seem at cross-purposes...[Photographs] can beautify a subject we normally might not deem beautiful.”There is no doubt that Brouws’s photographs are aesthetically pleasing: they capture the magical atmosphere of desolate landscapes with unfailing honesty. This is especially remarkable since his subjects??what urban geographers call TOADS (Temporary Obsolete Abandoned Derelict Sites)—are traditionally considered unaesthetic and unnoteworthy. It is ironic, then, that the elements that seduce viewers are precisely those that Brouws aims to portray as inherently destructive to our culture.The book’s three...
...deeds of Ocampo, who will hold their oppressors accountable. But for all this progress, Darfur looks remarkably the same. Though only one subject in the film is openly disappointed, the news reminds us every night why his frustrations are justified. Darfur, now, is still in trouble. In highlighting his subjects?? achievements, Braun makes the ongoing crisis a little too easy to forget. But he leaves his audience no excuse for inaction. After all, if “regular guys” and movie stars are standing up, why aren?...
...disorder “to be the most significant health advance since small pox” eradication. “I thought, ‘How could we not know about this!’” Riedl recalls. And informing the public about lesser-known subjects??such as IDD or POWs who choose not to return home—is part of the festival’s mission. Documentary “can illuminate the topics in a way that hearing a lecture can’t,” says Erica D. Sanger, program manager...
...that the drug alone is not responsible for the pleasure experienced by drug addicts. A similar result was observed in an experiment with humans which did not involve any drugs at all. Subjects were shown both neutral control videos and videos that showed people using cocaine. Scientists observed that subjects?? dopamine levels increased drastically when shown videos of drug use. The experiments, Volkow said, demonstrate the strong connection between memory and craving, and suggest that more effective treatments might focus on disrupting memory rather than affecting only the rewards a drug user experiences. Addictive behavior is often driven...