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...world's poor have forever been treated. In ordinary times, we give when it's easy: a gesture, a reflex, a salve to conscience. The entreaties come on late-night TV from well-meaning but long-discarded celebrities who cuddle with big-eyed children and appeal to pity and guilt. Maybe we send off a check, hope it will help someone somewhere stay alive for another day. That is not the model for the current crusaders or the message for these extraordinary times...
...handsome, like the hero of a Bront? novel, Dorrington is also as haunted as Heathcliff or Mr. Rochester. As a 14-year-old experimenting with explosives, he had lost parts of two fingers; later, in Sumatra, a colleague died in an airship crash for which the aeronaut still feels guilt. Occasionally oppressed by his melodramatic mien, Herzog turns to Dorrington?s Guyanese assistant, the gentle, mystical Mark Anthony Yhap. But the attempts to get the White Diamond up are at the heart of the film. And when, accompanied by beautiful choral music, the airship finally rises to soar over...
...essay on the complicity between those who create disturbing images (moviemakers) and those who take pleasure from looking at them (us). Georges is not as blameless as he seems; his long-suppressed memories of an incident from his youth lead him into a labyrinth of personal and political guilt, and a confrontation startling in its violence. Till the very end of the film, the very last shot, you may ask, Yes, but whodunit? Who was the anonymous terrorizer? And as the closing credits appear over that final shot, I say that you can find an answer... if you look closer...
...their minds they are not hit men, but Israel’s angels of vengeance. However, their seemingly secure self-perception within their moral high ground is really a slippery slope. Kauffman and his team gradually become overwhelmed by the enormity of their actions, and their guilt alienates them from each other and induces resentment of their mission.Spielberg’s expert use of espionage-thriller genre conventions prevents the film from becoming ideologically burdensome. The coincidence of casting Daniel Craig, the newly appointed successor to Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, as the team’s impetuous driver...
...sexuality, barring him from priestly responsibility. Gay seminarians can be spotted and rooted out because they allegedly have "trouble relating to their fathers; are uncomfortable with their own identity; tend to isolate themselves; have difficulty in discussing sexual questions; view pornography on the Internet; demonstrate a deep sense of guilt; or often see themselves as victims." No serious psychological data are provided to verify those assertions (and many would surely apply to countless heterosexuals as well). What the new Pope has done is conflate a sin with an identity. He has created a class of human beings who, regardless...