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Bouchez and Regnier won a joint prize at Cannes for their roles, and their performances have that improvised-looking-but-probably-took-30-takes-each -time-to-get quality. They are particularly effective at moments both when their characters send out tentative care-feelers, latent with trust hopefully overriding suspicion and when they eventually turn on one another. Colin, as Marie's squeeze, Chris, plays a very believable asshole...
Often only a little skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...
...Often only a little skepticism, a little suspicion proves enough, but all too frequently blissful innocence rules alone. What Internet user can avoid confronting the harsh possibilities implicit in programs like Finger and Ping? Who uses e-mail without the electronic equivalent of drawbridges, a portcullis, some halberdiers? Lately, the answer seems well-nigh everyone. Too many Harvard students trust, too few know Melville's The Confidence Man, the twisted tale of a masquerader already physically close to his victims, poised to ping...
Insert here a quotation from a Shakespearean comedy about illusions and switcheroos. Except that here it's relentlessly morbid and with little song and dance to the loud-and-clear cynicism. After getting flak for his platitudes, Billings confronts Sgt. Pompano with his suspicion that she doesn't think spirituality and hard-nosed policing (reality) can coexist. It's not that she doesn't think they can, but that it doesn't matter--they're no threat, he's just another rube, another biped bovine...
Kkeeping secrets is an inherently suspect activity. Who would keep things secret unless there were something to hide? However, the United States has traditionally believed that exercising one's right to privacy should not incur suspicion, any more than taking the Fifth and refusing to testify should be taken as an admission of guilt. Although the right to privacy is not explicitly protected in the Bill of Rights, the U.S. has long recognized an individual's right to keep things hidden from public view...