Word: surrealness
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There seem to be a few focuses to this surreal piece of cinema: the concept of performance, the phenomenon of mass gatherings and the role of the past in the evils of today...
...love of a soldier and the evils of infiltrating capitalist spies. It unfolds as the screen switches from the storyline to footage from old Soviet films (such as musical performances) to shots of animals in a desert to shots of such natural wonders as volcanoes and snowdrifts to surreal images of a man with huge wings trying to fly. Moving back and forth between these disparate elements, the film nonetheless holds together convincingly...
...court each summer. And it regularly hyperventilates with an ultra-liberal world view that has prompted the city council to pronounce itself on foreign policy as readily as on sewage easements. During the Gulf War, Denver, like the rest of the U.S., appeared to be 80% in favor. Not surreal Boulder: there, hundreds of antiwar protesters blocked traffic in the city center day after...
...says Mihoko Ehara, 24, a waitress. "But because it is so good, I think that if you skied here too often you might lose touch." Still, unlike Seagaia, SSAWS really has little to offer apart from snow. The skiing is fine for the first few runs -- and is especially surreal in summer -- but the lack of any scenery, apart from the girders overhead and gray walls all around, becomes tiresome...
...fact agenda of including homosexuals in stories not "about" their world. All those are evident in A Perfect Ganesh, which is anything but an attempt to cash in on his sudden commercial appeal. There are flaws. While soundly constructed, with plenty of satisfying theatricality, the drama can be surreal, oblique and cerebral. Some parts are cute. But the play has grand ambitions and attains them...