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...Terror Train The death sentence imposed on Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara for the 1995 sarin-gas attack in the Tokyo subway [NOTEBOOK, March 8] brought back the horror of that assault. We covered the disaster, which caused the death of 12 and injured more than 5,500, in our April 3, 1995, issue...
...With this patent misuse of its important right and responsibility, the National Assembly has exposed the weakness in contemporary South Korean democracy. If you or I learned that a beloved friend or relative had been found wandering naked in the street, our first reaction would probably be of horror?but then we might think back and recognize that there had been warning signs of the impending breakdown. So it is with South Korea's democratic system: signs of trouble were there, whether or not we cared to take them seriously. We might now remember how former President Kim Dae Jung...
This is a lovesick horror movie, for Dr. M.'s procedure is not a cure but a disease: Alzheimer's, in which memories are erased in reverse order until only the earliest are retained. And yet as laid out with such elliptical care by Kaufman and Gondry and played by Carrey and Winslet with fiendish devotion to their wayward characters, it's a horror movie that dares to hope--to hope even for the worst, since the thorniest love makes us feel most alive, even in our misery...
...Sunshine, Michel Gondry keeps the story rooted in the essential horror of finding your best memories being slowly deleted, always making the audience care for Joel as a man, rather than blowing away characterization for the sake of wonderment at the increasingly inventive set pieces. But, boy, are those set pieces cool. The best example can be found in a scene where Joel and Clementine run across Grand Central Station as the people they pass are slowly erased. It’s the film world’s first existential action scene...
...evident how this can become tiresome, even in the play’s 90 minutes. After the umpteenth horrible occurrence, it becomes hard to care about the latest tragedy, and the shrieking of the women involved can seem like an overreaction when horror has become the norm...