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Against the nurses' orders I bring her vanilla ice cream from time to time in a small cardboard cup, and I feed her with a flat wooden spoon. She takes her regular food through a tube in her stomach, so the taste of the sweet, cold substance makes her salivate and smile. She will exclaim, "This is delicious!" after every taste, with exactly the same intonation, as if she feared that if she used any other formula to express her appreciation, I would not reward her with another spoonful...
...Weegee's unsentimental views have been institutionalized as another kind of sentimentality--tough-guy picturesque. He's the Norman Rockwell of the Ratso Rizzos, the Currier & Ives of the roughnecks. He took his share of kids at the circus and sweet old couples, but the images we love him for are the ones that flesh out our film-noir fantasies. They reassure us that the bad news of our own tabloidy times is just the recurrence of something eternal in human nature. Weegee's world is one where the cops have just beaten the suspect, where the crowd leers...
Polley provides the central source of energy in The Sweet Hereafter as the only character not resigned to accept her fate as the sole object of pity in the town. She acts as a balance to Egoyan's chilly sensibility, which keeps the film from descending into pathos but also makes it difficult for the viewer to fully empathize with most of the characters...
...Sweet Hereafter is certainly wellcrafted, and contains outstanding performances by Holm and Polley. But Egoyan sacrifices an emotional relation to the material in favor of an icy and remote perfection...
...Good As It Gets is quietly different from the rest of the holiday releases: a bit old-fashioned in the sweet, simple values it embraces, but with a decidedly modern slant. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel as if it's earned a pleasant afterglow (and perhaps a Kleenex or two). Nicholson and Hunt are strikingly good, and James Brooks shows that he knows how to craft a clever love story. There's no shame in letting yourself get carried away by As Good As It Gets--you're in good hands...