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...Despite the militant iconography, most protesters were peaceful and only a small number rampaged at businesses associated with the U.S. Television here, like in the United States, tended to focus on the most violent images. One station played scenes of violence with Stars and Stripes Forever playing in the background...
...treacherous waters. The Ray Beam and Lily storyline, for example, stretches credulity with its portrait of a decadent rocker, while Lily's character remains an enigma. Robinson does best with the two stories that are at the extremes of personal drama: one quiet and understated, the other of increasingly violent paranoia. Caprice, the cute, funny and loveable waitress with an unfortunate case of low self esteem that results in poor choices of lovers practically walks off the page she seems so real. Equally compelling, Steve the nut, a highly intelligent ego-maniac with deep "anger issues" ("I don't know...
...interconnectedness. They provide a sort of existential "happy ending" where everything that seems to be unrelated and isolated proves to be part of some grand scheme. Tricked follows this fantasy to the letter. Eventually all the characters end up in the same place at the same time in a violent climax. But, although these narratives drive their characters to a single point in space and time, they never seem to converge thematically. Where the rain of frogs at the end of the movie Magnolia came on like a cathartic, physical manifestation of all the character's exploding emotions...
President George W. Bush shouldn't have been too surprised by the angry-and ultimately violent-welcome he received Friday at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. After pledging during his 2000 election campaign to correct Washington's indifference to Latin America, the President is viewed as having all but turned his back on the region after most Latin American capitals declined to back his invasion of Iraq. But Bush's hemispheric cold shoulder has backfired: It created a political vacuum that has been largely filled by neo-leftists like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
...these mistakes are all the more pathetic in light of his glib on-camera persona. Though the depressive aspect of Cage’s character risks monotony, Steve Conrad’s script puts him through a variety of humiliating encounters that bring out the more narcissistic and violent sides of Spritz’s madness. In this latest film, Gore Verbinski seems to be maturing away from the juvenile swashbuckling action of “Pirates of the Caribbean” (it was filmed in a break while finishing that trilogy), but old habits die hard...