Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Manny (Scarlett Johansson) is a wise and watchful child of 11. Lo (Aleksa Palladino) is a scared and angry young woman of 16. Orphaned sisters escaping foster care, they have hit the road in their mom's old car, subsisting on junk food but sheltering luxuriously, first in the model homes of newly built subdivisions, then in a vacant ski chalet...
Writer-director Linda Krueger begins the film with Manny's voicing clunky, day-dreamy meditations: something about knowing someone in a dream before you meet them. The content isn't so important as the goal of drawing us into the kids' minds: wise before their years, and yet not really wise...
This is not, putting it mildly, a fun premise. Indeed, the screenwriters (James DeMonaco and Gary Nadeau) and the director (Francis Ford Coppola, no less) consider it to be a philosophical premise, an occasion to wax pseudo-wise about life's brevity and the need to live it to the fullest while we're still here. There are also several demonstrations of why it is not nice to make fun of people who are different from...
...tour de force," sent a shiver of hope through thousands of paralyzed people. Although doctors quickly pointed out that it may be years before last week's findings could be turned into an effective therapy, they too were clearly buoyed. In a companion commentary, New York University neuroscientist Dr. Wise Young wrote, "The possibility of effective regenerative therapies for human spinal cord injury is no longer a speculation but a realistic goal...
...roaches therefore spend their time making often incomprehensible wise-cracks from under any object in Joe's nightmarishly filthy apartment that could be animated: false teeth, toast, lampshades etc. Payson's philosophy seems to have been to keep things moving, literally, at any cost...