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...Many of the paintings are technically proficient. But aesthetically as well as politically, North Korean art remains distinctly alien to the average foreign viewer. Says Jane Portal, curator of the Korean Foundation Gallery at the British Museum and author of the forthcoming book Art in North Korea: "Obviously the Social Realist style limits their acceptability to those who judge art from the point of view of mainstream Western aesthetics." Yet it's precisely this alien quality that makes the Rotterdam show so intriguing. As De Ceuster notes, the exhibit doesn't reflect the reality of North Korea: "All it portrays...
...argues that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were designed only to enrich the Bush family with oil money. For Moore, Sept. 11 wasn't the cause of the war on terrorism. It was a pretext for corruption. He cannot prove this, and so he tries to bludgeon the viewer emotionally to that conclusion. He uses innuendo, sly editing, parody, ridicule and somber voice-overs to give his mere assertions a patina of truth...
...film never masquerades as a comedy; the serious moments are so constant that even the most impervious viewer is guaranteed to shake his or her head at least a few times. In New York, head shakes were audible gasps—first, in the movie’s earliest minutes, for the numerous black House representatives who stood up to protest the 2000 election’s results in Congress but were not allowed to lodge their objections because they lacked the support of a single senator. This disquieting spectacle is something the cable news networks seemed to miss...
Other, similar “why didn’t I know this?” moments are far too numerous to recount, but they leave the viewer positively starving for more information. Why didn’t we ever see the panicked look on Iraqi faces when they saw the rubble after American bombs dropped? Why didn’t we ever see footage of injured soldiers, wincing in pain over amputated limbs, or the hundreds of flag-draped coffins? Why didn’t we ever get replays of Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell assuring us that Saddam...
...defendant's record is sealed, a juror concludes--because of something he saw on a lawyer show--that the accused must have a long rap sheet. Another bases his thinking on a Discovery Channel documentary he saw about the teen brain. Ask for a jury of your peers, dear viewer, and this is what...