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...than compensated for by its stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude abortion and vicious sodomy to capture the misery of an impoverished and overpopulated Third World metropolis. Filth, noise, chaos, this is Pixote's world: grim walls, dim light, inane pop music blaring in the background...
...that time, Harvard's chances for making the Eastern Finals seemed grim. But now, things have changed. Martin, the team's leading scorer, said, "We have to win our next two games to be invited to Easterns. If we keep it up like we did today--aggressive and all--we'll make it. It's do or die from here...
Such deeper calculations are sorely needed as the world arms bazaar grows ever larger. Without them, the prospects for global control look grim, as grim as the prospects for peace in a world flooded with weapons so ubiquitous that even a child can tote one, so powerful that even a handful of terrorists can hold a society hostage...
Royalty should play royalty, even in a pageant as pedestrian as this. Writer-Director Steven Gethers sketches a triptych of scenes from the life of young Jacqueline ("Not Jackie," as she firmly cautions). At first she is a solemn young equestrian, a pawn in her parents' grim power struggle for her love. Later, she is a budding journalist and the apple of Senator Jack Kennedy's roving eye. The film climaxes with the White House years, when she plays Guinevere in a contentious Camelot, acting as Jack's shy, willful, loving wife and then as his elegant...
...archdiocese in which Desmond's considerable ambitions lie. To its credit, True Confessions does not seek a tidy ending that will send the folks home happy, but rather explores the complication and ambiguities of this sordid situation; the message in this movie of all losers and no winners is grim indeed. But because of the weakness of its explication, that message loses the resonance it might have had in a better film...