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First-time director Andrew Niccol brings considerable visual style and an intriguing premise to this story of a Brave New Worldish society in which the pre-planned, genetically made-to-order elite get the honors and opportunities, and the natural births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays a "natural" who borrows the identity of a brahmin to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. Although the film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting, Niccol's striking images make it all easy to overlook...
First-time director Andrew Niccol brings considerable visual style and an intriguing premise to this story of a Brave New Worldish society in which the preplanned, genetically made-to-order elite get the honors and opportunities, and the natural births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays a "natural" who borrows the identity of a brahmin to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. Although the film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting, Niccol's striking images make it all easy to overlook...
First-time director Andrew Niccol, who also wrote the script, brings considerable visual style and an intriguing, only-too-timely premise to this story of a Brave New Worldish society in which the preplanned, genetically made-to-order elite get all the honors and opportunities, and the "natural" births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays Vincent Freeman, a natural who borrows the identity of one of the elite to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. The film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting; however, Niccol's striking images make...
...Manhattan, TIME Associate Editor Robert McLaughlin and Researcher Irene Ertugrul met with economists and Japanese experts, conferred with Japanese diplomats, writers and historians, read books ranging from cultural treatises to military histories to immerse themselves in the hierarchic quality and other-worldish flavor of Japanese life. For TIME readers who would like to experience the Japanese essence at greater length, they recommend a partial bibliography...
Died. Arthur Rackham, 72, foremost English illustrator, elfin and old-worldish as his quaint, delicately grotesque children, gnomes, hobgobliny trees beloved by readers of fairy tales throughout the English-speaking world; in Limpsfield, Surrey, England...
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