Word: plot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan's new Soviet-sponsored strongman, Babrak Karmal, toppling governments is old hat. In 1973, as parliamentary leader of the pro-Moscow Parcham wing of the Communist People's Democratic Party, he helped to plot the overthrow of King Mohammed Zahir Shah by Mohammed Daoud. Five years later, he blithely joined in the subsequent plot that ousted Daoud's regime. For that purpose, Karmal had aligned himself with his bitter political rival, Noor Mohammed Taraki, leader of the more radical Khalq faction of the P.D.P., who set himself up as President. But the alliance between...
Ironically, almost anyone who runs to see Being There or Electric Horseman suffers from the video/slick malaise that both these films attempt to ridicule: the need to replace people with images. Both films finger TV as the villain behind a plot to steer Americans toward artificial lives, to keep them from the wonder of natural beauty. Unfortunately, each film exaggerates TV's ill-effects to hammer home its message...
Restrained camera movement and dark and sparing lighting syncopate nicely with the undynamic plot and overall surrealism. In one directional flourish Ashby stole the theme from 2001 to accompany Gardiner's exit from his primitive garden-world into the "modern culture" and civilization of Northeast Washington...