Word: topicalism
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...Nobody at Cannes gives filmmakers a list of topics to address, so it is by sheer coincidence that another Eastern European movie, Andreü Zvyagintsev's The Banishment, also treats the topic of abortion. While on a stay in the countryside, a brooding woman tells her husband that she is pregnant, but not with his child. Crushed, the man insists she get rid of it. Their marriage, already strained, now splits at the seams, and everything tumbles into catastrophe. This tragedy is played out in beautiful settings and photographed with a graceful assurance, as if the world were blooming while...
...Humankind's downfall is, of course, a perennial topic for filmmakers, and watching the news-seeing real-life tragedy of an appalling and insoluble nature befall their fellow human beings-gnaws at the entrails of some directors, inspiring them to forsake glitz for grit. That's very noble, the movie moneymen say, but will anybody pay to see your scalding exposé of how rotten everything is? The answer is they will, if the filmmaker is Michael Moore...
...effective when he makes fun of the superficial glamour of Los Angeles and the tangled hypocrisy of D.C. In a recent appearance, he supplied a cheeky anecdote about a fellow Senator coming up to him after he gave his first speech on the Senate floor, which was on the topic of "having Congress abide by the laws that everybody else had to abide by - a novel concept at the time." His colleague, however, merely wanted to ask him about the submarine from the film The Hunt for Red October...
...Blake Lewis is another story. Blake's searches focused first on the topic of sexual preference, with "blake lewis gay" accounting for 4.25% of his searches. Apparently Internet searchers are undecided on his orientation; 0.5% of Blake's searches were for "blake lewis girlfriend." Alas, in Blake we find the classic Stacy Keibler Correction Coefficient: over 3% of his searches were for "blake lewis pictures" and "blake lewis shirtless." To his advantage however, over 2% of his searches, double that of Jordin's, focused on his music and unique beatbox style...
...think in the best of theses one brings the topic a bit further. One contributes something new...to a discourse,” Liaou said...