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Seen from the window of a descending airplane, a city sprawls out in astonishing intricacy, a maze-like network of stacked structures and winding, convoluted pathways. Unfamiliar in unexpected ways, it reveals the obsessive and overwrought patterns of human activity in all their inscrutable complexity. Too bad that, in the last weightless moments before touchdown, the city metamorphoses into something more pedestrian--disappearing, finally, into the invisibility with which we cloak the everyday. Up close, we see nothing...
...excellence of the cast, but also to provide what are essentially the storylines of the film, since almost every scene unfolds as an extrapolation of character. Whereas previously, in Boogie Nights and the carefully-studied noir Hard Eight, Anderson relied upon plot twists and unforeseen complications to examine an unfamiliar socio-moral universe, Magnolia's characters are not gamblers or pornographers; they live in _our_ universe and don't require the same roughing up to be understood. It's obvious from the start that all of these individuals are in pain, and that in order to heal, they need either...
Still, Act II is undeniably the stronger of the acts, for it showcases more vocal talent and retells a more unfamiliar story, the saga of Noah's son Japheth and his love for Yonah, a member of the race of Cain. The voices of Noah (Ryan Shrime '00), Mama Noah (Ashley McCants '02), Yonah (Jody Flader '02), and Japheth (Jason McNeely '00) fill the room admirably and beautifully complement each other...
...Worst Books of the Century chosen by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Margaret Mead gets top spot. ISI is apparently unfamiliar with the Jackie Collins canon...
...film may confuse those unfamiliar with Chinese history, but never mind. Just pay heed to the glorious moviemaking. There is one scene that haunts the heart: an ethereally beautiful blind girl (Xun Zhou) kills herself after the assassin has eradicated the rest of her family. Few directors can create such indelible imagery; Chen does it in nearly every frame...