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...Snow Angels is built on the same yearnings and desperation, the same threat of eventual violence; but, happily, it has an emotional density that trumps its familiarity. Winter is approaching in a small town where the high school band teacher (a brief role played with curt comic brio by Tom Noonan) shouts challenges at the students: "Do you have a sledgehammer in your heart? Are you ready to be my sledgehammer?" The hammers of hell beat in the hearts of these frosty folk; for Snow Angels, like a bunch of other films set in cold climates (The Ice Storm...
...That's Green's gift: to show how people learn codes of affection and aggression from watching movies, but when they try to pull them off in crucial situations they come out awkward, embarrassed and futile. The threat of domestic tragedy looms over Snow Angels, suggesting some exotic blend of Peyton Place and Twin Peaks; but its triumph is in portraying folks who, no matter how often they flail and fail, keep reaching out for human connection...
...then there's An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore's 2006 slide-show passion project made $24 million at the U.S. box office--no threat to Harry Potter but a blockbuster for a documentary. Covered in newspaper style pages and on entertainment shows, it received more than four times as much media attention as the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which, shockingly, was overlooked by E! More than 1,000 people in the U.S. were trained to give Gore's presentation, 110,000 teachers downloaded a curriculum, and the movie became part of the syllabus in some schools...
...rhetorical flourishes were often so good that they papered over his actual positions, which remained under-defined in many areas. On social issues, he was far more conservative than his rhetoric often implied: He disapproved of gay adoption, saw lesbian married couples as a threat to the "skeletal system" of civilization, and supported bans on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. He never engaged criticism of the regressive nature of his plan to abolish the income tax. After making repeated blunders about foreign policy facts, he employed a one-liner to silence his critics: "The mistakes that I think...
...Says Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo, himself a FARC hostage for six years before escaping in 2006, "If the FARC can constantly take refuge outside Colombia, it becomes a threat to regional stability...