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...herself a new nose, I hope it turns out to be, as my mother would have put it, cute as a button. Self-improvement is the American way. I was not among those who made snide remarks about Linda Tripp's makeover. Just because your behavior calls to mind Victor McLaglen in The Informer, there is no law that says you have to look like him as well...
...picture of him chewing his lower lip while being evasive about Lewinsky. And why did Linda Tripp show up at the grand jury with not only a makeover but also her two children? She wants the picture in our minds to be of a mom. Gypo Nolan, the character Victor McLaglen played, may have been, all in all, more admirable than Tripp; at least he had pangs of remorse for betraying his friend. But he never managed to get a sympathetic picture into the record...
...father long lost to drink and mysterious shame has died. Attention must be paid by his angry, damaged son Victor (Adam Beach). A little odyssey to recover the body--and to achieve some sort of posthumous reconciliation--is arranged. Another youth, Thomas (Evan Adams), whose life the dead man saved and whose memories of him are much fonder, intrudes himself on the journey, which eventually brings the young mourners to a new understanding of their shared past and of one another...
...does. But the largest pleasure of this very small film, which is being promoted as the first feature largely created by Native Americans, lies in the relationship between its two young travelers. Off the reservation where they were born and raised, they present contrasting faces to the outside world. Victor wants to be silent, stoic, dangerously enigmatic--sort of an old-fashioned movie Indian. Thomas, who seems to be Alexie's surrogate, is, in contrast, a slightly nerdy puppy. And a motormouth, spinning funny, folkish tales, trying to humanize his wary friend and ingratiate himself with strangers...
...walk around the Champs D'Elysee, I see the invasion of the GAP, American restaurants, and dubbed Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio flicks. Americanization, with all of its money-hungry capitalists, cunning advertisers, flashy lights and technological miracles, has fully transformed the city of Robespierre, Victor Hugo and Jean-Paul Sartre. This transformation is unfortunate. It is an even sadder reflection on our country that, internationally, America has come to represent shopping malls, MTV, Big Macs and E.R. However, many of the social and behavioral norms associated with consumerism have not crossed the ocean back to the old world. Perhaps...