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...underpinning. Philosophical discourse takes such an incredible amount of concentration and linear, logical thinking, that the flashing images and spatial nature of the cinematic form disrupts Heidegger's text more than they complement it. This brings one of the exhibit's main conflicts to light. We are a society torn between discourses, one written and one visual, and our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our guilt-laden tendency to try to make sense of the written. But this conflict, both examined by Hill's work and evident...
...fact, the barbarians are well established in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city (pop. 10 million). The town is torn by conflict between rival factions of Mohajir Muslim migrants from India, between the terrorists and the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and between rival groups of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Add to that a booming heroin trade, a kidnap-for-ransom industry and a mountain of weapons left over from the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. The result: 1,200 murders in the past year, making Karachi one of the deadliest cities in the world. (In New York City, where...
Morgan Freeman is excellent as Hoffman's supervisor torn between ethics and orders, as they try to contain the virus...
Dissociation especially occurs in adolescents, she said, who find themselves torn between their inner and outer selves...
...Faces" takes us to London where Anne (Katrin Cartlidge) a photo editor, is examining pictures of Kiril. At first it is jarring to shift from the vast cliffs of Macedonia to the grey streets of London, but eventually the connection becomes clear. Anne is torn between two men: her estranged husband and Aleksander, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist played with unctuous passion by Rade Serbedzija...