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...friend Oleg (Cameron Bright) gets his hands on one. He shoots his abusive stepfather and goes on the run, and Joey tries to get his gun back through several ridiculous subplots (including the strip-club meeting scene which, by law, every crime movie must contain). Every “twist?? is painfully obvious minutes in advance, except the ones that still don’t make sense after you’ve left the theater. One of the digressions in the story deserves special mention. Oleg gets kidnapped by a frighteningly cheerful couple with a beautiful apartment...
...over form. With a highlighter on one end and a pen point on the other, it is the perfect accessory for this multitasking generation. However, the pretentious name of the pen, the “Senator,” and the condescending instructions telling us to “twist?? to open the pen, hurts its overall score. The pen’s most glaring design flaw is the cap for the highlighter. In pressing down on the cap, the pen tip comes out on the other end, which caused one of us to stab himself and bleed...
Polanski has proven his talent in the past, especially with his adaptation of “The Pianist” (2002), yet his latest film, the newest in a long line of “Twist?? adaptations, isn’t quite perfect...
...remix will be the 21st century equivalent of what Walter Benjamin referred to in his classic essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”—but with a twist??it’s all all about digital copies, so the cultural operating system is whatever you feel like downloading. The rest is like Amiri Baraka said so long ago—all about the “changing same.” The Beats of the 20th century—William S. Burroughs “cut-up?...
...devout Baptist, the verdict was a dissatisfying conclusion—or disappointing twist??to a five-month ordeal that has been marked by prayer with his family, a month-long hunger strike and the study of several languages...