Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judas lurched around, thinking the voice was too familiar. But the face was indescribably changed; Jesus' old fire and wit were gone. This man looked not remotely childish but utterly new, just born at sunrise, this April Sunday. So Judas said, "All the help I need--thanks anyhow--would be for you to leave...
Penn does bold justice to this lowdown giant. But Samantha Morton, as Emmet's "mute orphan half-wit" of a girlfriend, is the sweet revelation. Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness. She hardly nods or shakes her head in response to a question, yet always conveys the meaning and feeling. In an age of actors' tics and rantings, such austere clarity is worth cherishing. The interpretive magic that Emmet Ray achieves with six strings, Morton conjures with none...
...transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond shaped eyes, 80,000, silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, and ass--the liter costs 60,000 pesetas; you add it up, because I stopped counting. Tits? Two. I'm no monster...
Will Smith hails Miami as the place where "all night and day the heat is on." But if you really want to "Get Jiggy Wit It," invest some time in your local SoCal gym. It's a meat market worse than the First-Year Mixer--men don't bare all in form-fitting bike shorts for nothing...
...between blacks and whites, quotes liberally from Hegel...nah, we're just playin'. Dre's album is mostly about weed, "bitches" and guns, just as you'd expect. Still, some of the beats are fresh and involving, and Dre's collaborations with Eminem and Snoop Dogg have ferocity and wit. But you have to wonder: Can gangsta themes age gracefully? Will Dr. Dre 2041 find an older, wiser Dre boasting about the benefits of marijuana for glaucoma...