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...plasticity of their conversations is impossible to overlook. To be sure, there is a patent attempt to flesh out the main characters’ three-dimensionality. Tucker’s secret sexual naïveté, for instance, complicates his otherwise insufferably flat character. But nothing can save either protagonist from the actors’ forced deliveries. Ultimately, Hugh Hefner is the only realistic character in the film, and that isn’t saying much since the man plays himself. Like a gawky teenager lumbering at a school dance, “Miss March” is a film...
...update the film. With an R rating, Snyder was able to embrace the sex and violence of the novel and maintain its setting: a fictional 1985 in which a fifth-term Nixon celebrates American triumph in Vietnam. Our insight into this alternate reality comes from primary narrator and protagonist Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), whose deliciously gravel voice, hangdog look, and uncanny resemblance to his novel counterpart lend the movie its most gripping and startling moments.Snyder’s cast performs smoothly and largely carries the tone of the story—unabashed, raw violence coupled with an underlying black...
...Don’t Let Her Pull You Down,” are so commonplace that it’s hard to harp on anything else. Granted, there are some interesting narrative angles, as in “Listen to Your Friends,” where the protagonist wakes up from a coma and tries to unravel what happened to him (I’ll give you a hint—it involves a note in his pocket which reads “I don’t ever want to see you again”), but most...
...Movie God again,” he said. Only some sort of cinematic deity could’ve saved him, he says, from the perils of one of the movie’s most famous scenes—a heart-stopping car chase in which protagonist Jimmy Doyle (played by that year’s Best Actor Gene Hackman) rockets through Brooklyn traffic tailing a criminal who has hijacked the West End’s elevated train. Lacking the funds to block off the street or film the chase on a closed set, Friedkin had simply sat in the passenger?...
...literally crumbled throughout the 70s and 80s, forcing thousands of residents to seek shelter in tenements and public housing. As desperate landlords set fire to their property, hoping to reap the benefits of insurance policies, blackened, windowless towers came to punctuate the skyline of an apocalyptically desolate landscape.Joon, the protagonist of Nami Mun’s debut novel “Miles from Nowhere,” embodies the melancholy pervasive in this landscape. However, the heated social and political factors that fuel the destruction of the Bronx are of marginal importance to Mun. Though her character lives underneath...