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...Under what circumstances can an armed soldier legitimately attack a young boy? However, they do raise a point which we believe is crucial to an understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: decontextualized violence often comes across in Western media as barbaric outbursts of terrorism, when in fact they are tragic reactions to the systematic violence that has been inflicted upon Palestinians from the inception of the colonial state of Israel in 1948 to the present. This foundational injustice must never be forgotten. Mohammad Al-Ississ '99, Amahl Bishara '98, Waqaas Fahmawi '99, Society of Arab Students
...inept guy how to dress and impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong with genre fusing or having characters whose individual stories could constitute an entire script in themselves, but this film does it sloppily. By the time The Locusts reaches its wanna-be tragic climax, jumping from Capshaw and Vaughn going head to head to Judd having a picnic with Davies, you feel as if you're watching two different movies. What's meant to be seen as ambitious and dramatically compelling comes across as strung out and hollow...
Gould includes a footnote on the Heaven's Gate cult, as he consciously disproves his theory that "the fusion of Christian millennialism with traditional beliefs of conquered (and despairing) peoples has often led to particularly incendiary, and tragic, results." After the Heaven's Gate tragedy, Gould realizes this 10-page critique of non-Western apocalyptic beliefs is not only "parochial," but "even a bit condescending." His confession is, to say the least, understated...
...twist, it tells the story of two con-men, Franz and Arthur, and their attempt to work over a young girl, Odile (played by the one and only Anna Karina). One of Godard's lesser known films, it nonetheless embodies the curious mix between word and image, humor and tragic romance, that is so very Godard. Characters are lonely but have no desire to connect to those around them. Awkwardness only occurs within familiar situations. Dialogue is impulsive and witty...
...face choices like that," he said. "It's only after tragic things like this happen that you begin to realize that perhaps you could have made a difference...