Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hand didn't listen to me. Then came a pain that ran from my shoulders all the way down my back. 'Raise your arms,' someone shouted, 'Raise your arms!' For a moment I didn't know where I was or what had pushed itself into me. My blouse was yanked up. And the same syllables again and again: 'Raise your arms!'...I wanted to talk. I kept talking the whole time I looked for my panties. I was acting just like people in the movies do after an accident...
Which brings me to my friend Ping, who not only drinks, dresses and drives la mode but has an active hand in making sure modernity moves speedily forward...
...movie focuses, or at least tries to focus, on the moral dilemmas that Hodges faces. He trusts his friend, but when he visits Yemen to look for evidence, he witnesses first-hand the effects of Childers's attack and is mortified and subsequently falls off the wagon. But this, the one aspect of this movie that could be interesting or thought provoking-that Hodges has to defend a friend who he believes to be guilty-dissipates into thin air. Hodges simply forgets all that he saw in Yemen and vigorously defends his friend. The audience keeps wondering where the moral...
...heroes shouldn't have to stand alone. Besides the film's questionable morals and its self-contradicting characters, it has some wildly unbelievable subplots. For instance, when Hodges goes to Yemen he sees a skinny, one-legged girl on one of those tragic-looking hand-carved crutches. She is adorable, and a perfect figure to represent the suffering Childers caused. That is, the first time we see her. She hobbles around incessantly, silently leading Hodges around. He thinks about her on his trip back. We get another flashback later on and by this point she has gone from a horrifying...
...Marisleysis, surrogate of the Drowned Madonna, back from the hospital where the stress has sent her, works the barricades now, distributing cups of cool drink to the people in the way that a priest distributes communion. And they take the cups from her hand as from a saint...