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...emotional storyline—compounded by the fact that this is a dramatization, not a documentary—makes exaggeration not only unnecessary, but also detrimental to the film’s power. A frantic escape scene featuring Yong-soo is filmed in slow motion, presumably to increase the tension and drama of the moment. It comes across as overdone and totally lacking in suspense. The film also employs its fair share of flashback-driven montages, a superfluous technique that does nothing to advance the story. Attempts at symbolism in the movie are also heavy-handed. The rain, for instance...

Author: By Isabel E. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crossings | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...early 1990s may have trickled down from the spirited and sometimes vitriolic debates held during classes, as professors from both ends of the political spectrum flaunted their ideological differences.While many students saw the heated discussions as “amusing” incidents, others felt that they created unnecessary tension and divisiveness outside the classroom. Students who held unpopular views sometimes found themselves the target of personal attacks.“Students were hissing at unpopular political views and really hot political issues,” Steiker says. “The political dysfunction slopped over into student life...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Kagan's Legal Legacy | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...been charged with assaulting three cops. The lawyers will share scenes with Madea only twice thereafter; otherwise, their stories are completely unrelated, resulting in two distinct works of inconsistent quality.The inferiority of the primary plot is due more to its execution than the narrative it attempts to tell. The tension between the two parts of Joshua’s life—his childhood in the slums and his later success as a lawyer—could set the stage for a movie on its own, as could his deteriorating relationship with his much-wealthier fiancé Linda (Ion Overman...

Author: By Roy Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Madea Goes to Jail | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of political high tension in Zimbabwe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25-Min. Workweek on Zimbabwe's Stock Exchange | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...like ‘Why you?’.... I’m not that girl. I’m the girl next door, not the sex symbol.” Gallo guesses her “good girl” appearance and personality on screen creates an interesting tension between expectation and reality. And her sweet-looking, gross/kinky-girl casting has followed her. But exposing it all turned out to be less difficult during “Californication,” leading Gallo to think, “Oh my god, I have lost my mind because I am totally...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ivy Leage Student Graduates to Big-Screen Kinky Girl Roles | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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