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...There's definitely a need for an Asian-American studies program," said Aram Yang...
...Serfs, seen in childhood by nearly all Chinese, show venal monks digging out people's eyeballs to settle debts and stretching the skin of dead serfs over drum heads. Communist propaganda vilifies exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as a "splittist" seeking to restore feudalism. Such images die hard. Yang Bo, a 30-year-old Chinese tourist who absorbed many propaganda films on Tibet, recoiled while visiting one of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest places, the Labrang Monastery in Gansu province: "It was dark, and the spinning prayer wheels sounded savage...
...WHAT Edward Yang won the Best Director prize at Cannes; Yi Yi was named Best Foreign Language Film by the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association...
THEN AGAIN... Not every movie has to shout. Yang's visual whispers have a cumulative impact. The viewer gets to know each member of the troubled family, to see what makes them unique--and universal. Yang is like the family's wise young son (Jonathan Chang) who takes pictures of the backs of people's heads. "You couldn't see it," he says, "so I showed you." Yang takes pictures of the pain in people's souls...
...loser this time starts with a constituency of exactly 50% of America--give or take a precinct. The entire American yin has been radicalized against the whole American yang. The memory of the 2000 postelection chadfest will revive an angry energy in 2004, which will produce the biggest voter turnout in history...