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...Markovic, a man with a hard face and a contemptuous manner, never suggests, at any point in the movie, that Salomon converts to a more humane way of thinking. But he takes under his wing a young printer whose wife has died in another camp and who is himself grievously ill. He is strangely tender with this character, even finding a way to provide him with the drugs he requires to make a fight for survival...
...paths rarely cross, it’s no surprise that the movie is riddled with uncomfortable situations. Many of the characters are vaguely shy or withdrawn, communicating with each other in broken English. The connections they make are in unlikely places and between unlikely people: an unemployed man whose wife hates him and a second-string conductor who can’t seem to finish his concerto, for example, or an outspoken young woman and a formal old man. But this is no “Lost in Translation.” It’s less a story about...
...iron-fisted dictatorship is merely the very, very beginning of the story. Myriad storylines continually diverge and intertwine in this sprawling novel, but the work centers primarily on the lives of four couples, each representing a different issue facing modern Africa.Explored in the relationship between the Ruler and his wife Rachael is the issue confronting so many African countries today: the tyranny of an egotistical ruler. The Ruler’s tendency to sleep with women, sometimes no more than girls, in order to punish their politically insubordinate husbands and fathers epitomizes his deviously manipulative and base regime...
...questions asked by viewers, because she believes that she has the scientific background to discuss any sexual issue. The gratification in her work, she says, comes from making couples happier by helping resolve their marital sex problems. But she refuses to deal with cases where a husband abuses his wife but expects her to respond to his sexual whims by claiming that Islam requires her obedience. "I ask patients like that to leave and never come back, because they are an insult to Islam and the Prophet," she says...
...find something, I will abandon the state," he adds before loading another tray of gravel onto his wife's head so she can take it to the river to rinse and scour it for that elusive diamond...