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...tension even as it asks us to study the mechanics of film fright. Haneke's camera, so quietly predatory, is the herald of disaster. And we the viewers are its beneficiaries, watching and waiting for something awful to happen. Here it does, first subtly, then spectacularly. The twist is not revealed until the last shot--if you keep your avid eyes open...
...compelling twist on William Shakespeare’s tragic jealous-lover-turned-murderer story “Othello,” “Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief” features a comic cast of all female characters: Desdemona, her recently promoted chambermaid Emilia, and her friend Bianca, a local prostitute...
...romance.But words like “gay” are the sort of reductive labels against which this movie kicks and spits. The relationship between gruff, gravel-mouthed Ennis (Heath Ledger—“A Knight’s Tale”) and the more nimble Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal—“Donnie Darko”) is a fiery complicated mess from which only one earnest fact emerges: they do not love women or men, only one another. Nor are they particularly successful cowboys; their inability to keep their eyes on the sheep...
...Turning to the 2004 presidential election, he said the Republican victory had nothing to do with moral issues, but was due instead to President Bush’s clever manipulation of the emotions of the American people after September 11, 2001. “They put a 2001 twist on so many things,” he said. Frank voted against giving Bush authorization to go to war in Iraq, unlike many Democrats who grew critical of the war only when the intelligence justifying the invasion of the war proved specious.“[Bush’s] defense...
...though—what ever happened to people being afraid of robots? Have we let our guard down prematurely? After all, we may not always be able to count on Beck to save us from the androids and their dancing ways.—Abe J. Riesman"The Denial Twist"The White Stripes At the end of Michel Gondry’s video for the White Stripes’ “The Denial Twist,” Conan O’Brian ’85 laments: “My head’s getting bigger?...