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Analyze That has the potential to be, like its predecessor, another great movie, but may also fall into the trap of being too much like it. It does, however, seem to give its characters greater depth, as revealed to the audience through the parallel between Vitti’s change in identity and Sobel’s search for his own in the face of his father’s death. These innovations, if effective, might just be enough to make Analyze That a movie you can’t refuse...
...best. Come Drink With Me (1966), The Heroic Ones (1970) and Killer Clans (1976) all bubble with betrayal, with roguish good guys (notably the boyishly take-charge Chiang in The Heroic Ones) whose hands are quicker than their opponents' eyes, and with plot twists as unexpected as the trap doors that open for all manner of malefactors in Killer Clans. The stunt work is exhilarating, the narrative ingenuity inexhaustible...
...villagers to be howling. And a few of the men of Bori Budruk, including Vilas, do want the leopards dead. They angrily accuse forest officer Dashrat Sabaj Wayal, who visits the villages armed only with the principles of conservation, of doing nothing. This isn't true. Wayal has helped trap and release 58 leopards since January 2000, and in February played tug-of-war with an animal that had a man locked in its jaws for 15 minutes until it gave...
...gatekeeper is chance. ... We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us. ... What kind of beast is this ... this Moloch who promises us that everything will be beautiful after we're dead? A distant end is not an end but a trap. The end we work for must be closer: the labourer's wage, the pleasure in the work done, the summer lightning of personal happiness... we have to open men's eyes and not tear them...
...Bush team came into office saying they would not let personal relationships cloud their foreign policy, it is clear that in some cases, Bush's gut rules. The president has taken a personal liking to Russian President Vladimir Putin despite having said he would not fall into that trap, and he has made a similarly personal judgment, though with very different results, about Schroeder...