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...dramatizing the tragedy. The rapidly spiraling life of a lonely man in Mexico is presented through the eyes of the man as he drinks himself indirectly to death. Yet the tone Boyle uses for the narrative is not passionate or deploringly depressive; instead he fills the pages with a sullen sadness that suffocates instead of ignites...
...Wait." It is with "Funny,"towards the end of the show, that Roulleau finallysinks his teeth into Stine and shows some fire inthe eye. However, this is not really a failingwhen playing a character which is generally staidand less than exciting. Berwick, for all hisskulking, doesn't damage his sullen machismo whensinging in the steady but aching tone of aninjured romantic. Bogart would never have gottenaway with a song. What did I tell you about afirst-class cast...
...standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color-by-number style where a person's every wish is fulfilled? Cuba Gooding, Jr. breathes some life into the story. His energy actually recalls some of Williams' early comedic work, and serves as a constant reminder of what Williams lacks in What Dreams...
...seemed in doubt until the 32nd minute,when junior Chinezi Chijioke was pulled downinside the goalkeeper's box by an overzealousdefender. On the ensuing penalty kick, juniorArmando Petruccelli beat Dartmouth's goalkeeper,6'4" Matt Nyman, to the top left corner to eventhe score. The goal brought the sullen crowd backto life, changing the aura of the crowd to hopefor a Crimson victory...
...racial turmoil portrayed in Bonfire was up front and confrontational and stomping on the streets. Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter...