Word: trailering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Politicians looking for a hotline to Middle Australians, the battlers whose dreams and disappointments can determine an election, need look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken...
...with her world, trapped by memories that conflicted with what the people she trusted would have her believe, fighting for the truth as she felt it in her core, struggling to prove that her son was more than just a figment of post-miscarriage depression? This, the trailer for The Forgotten, splashed across the screen to intrigue and thrill me as I waited to be entertained by the indie music and muted palette of Garden State last month. That scene where the protagonist storms into Ash’s study and pulls off the wallpaper, revealing the drawings...
...best aspects of the film are all there in that wickedly misleading trailer: the disconnect between Telly’s memory and that of those around her and the viscerality of our shock as she reveals the history beneath the façade in Correll’s daughter’s room, demonstrating the Oz-like nature of the world they inhabit. As it progresses, however, these ideas and feelings recede into the background, pushed out by car chases, government conspiracies, and, of all things, aliens...
...fashioned kind) faces off against wmd-hoarding, four-letter-wording North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Some have already attacked the film for mocking the war on terrorism. But given the correctly impolitic attitudes of Parker and Stone, count on both left and right wings getting clipped. The trailer ballyhoos star names: "Alec Baldwin! ... Susan Sarandon! ... George W. Bush!" Then: "Are all going to hate this movie." The result should be scabrous and loopy enough to make Michael Moore seem ... reverent...
...totally unexpected. Floridians have weathered repeated deadly hurricanes, such as Andrew, which in 1992 became the costliest U.S. disaster prior to 9/11. But those lessons were ephemeral. People have continued to move into Florida's dense metropolises, perched on the water's edge. And virtual cities of trailer parks have sprung up alongside vulnerable inlets. Some call it hurricane amnesia, and a cure is not in sight...