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...Humans are highly social beings - we can either behave competitively or we can be cooperative. In more unequal societies, people are more out for themselves. Their involvement in community life drops away, and that???s corrosive...
...five, prepares a meal of salted rice for her children. While she feeds them, her husband sifts through the mounds of grease-stained cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and broken glass that crowd their home. He'll sell his rotten harvest for about $3.50. For their family of seven, that???s 50 cents per person, per day. The arithmetic is simple, Bing says. "With every child I have, there is less rice each. I can?t give them all a good life...
...would rather be shot in the face than eat this food.? Why shouldn?t she stick to her diet of Dr. Pepper, Pringles, TastyKakes, Red Bull and the occasional cigarette? And when threats don?t work, Angie tries logic: ?There?s a thing called being too healthy. That???s what killed Bruce Lee.? (It was more likely a brain aneurysm.) Angie/Amy may lose this debate on points but she wins on presentation, because she looks slim, radiant, great. If junk food is what got her that body, plenty of women watching will say, ?I?ll have...
Everybody who makes documentaries (and after writing and directing 37 of them, I am among them) gets tired of their constraints. That???s especially true of the talking heads, experts and eyewitnesses commenting upon whatever the film?s topic, whether lightsome or lugubrious, may be. These people often offer useful information and, occasionally, blinding insights. And since the filmmaker frequently does not have all the raw, original footage he requires to tell his story, they are sometimes the only source available to fill in his narrative gaps...
...what the academics like to call a ?Comedy of Remarriage.? You know - fairly mature couple splits up, endures some feckless romantic misadventures, then get more happily reconnected in the final reel. You expect that to happen with these kids. But it doesn?t. Instead something that???s equally civilized, but a little less formulaic develops, something that is obviously appealing to the optimism and inexperience of a young audience occurs. This is a fairly low-keyed comedy, but a grown-up dropping in on it can appreciate its lack of frenzy, its fundamental good nature, as easily...