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...would be fair to reveal here - we are in soap opera country. And maybe we are, but that reckons without the easy naturalism of Anders Thomas Jensen's script and the brilliance with which it is played by its perfectly cast actors. For a very long time we wonder if what's unfolding on the screen is just a set of very curious coincidences instead of what it obviously is: a carefully rigged scheme by Jorgen, who is keeping a dark and tragic secret from his family. When it is revealed, After the Wedding turns into a number of things...
...Sarah Kawahara, who choreographed some of Michelle Kwan's medal-winning performances) are both plausible and funny. Craig T. Nelson, as the boys' coach, is neither - why is he in a comedy? In this movie, the inspired bits and the misfired ones are so close to each other, you wonder if anybody involved with it knew the difference, or cared...
James Monroe said it this way: "National honor is national property of the highest value." You have to wonder what he would have made of Guantánamo. We keep getting reminders--there was another on March 26, with the first conviction of a Guantánamo detainee--that it remains a place where the national honor is in play, where the U.S. image in the eyes of the world is daily up for grabs...
...Bush Administration is doing nothing to allay Tehran's paranoia. With the largest buildup in the Gulf since the start of this Iraq war, it's actually fanning it. You have to wonder if Bush is counting on the Iranians' overreacting the way they did when they seized our embassy in 1979. And lest we forget, this was driven by paranoia that we were plotting to destroy the revolution...
...wouldn't be wrong to wonder if Iran hasn't lost its mind seizing the 15 British marines and sailors, and in so doing, handing Bush a casus belli even he couldn't have imagined...