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...movie focuses on more than the soldiers. The people who rescue Todd after his fall from the garbage carrier are unlucky colonists who crashed on the planet years ago. Stranded, they have managed to build a small community, using as raw materials only the things that others have discarded. So just as the settlers have found use in others' garbage, so also do viewers see that both Todd and the colonists have worth, despite being tossed aside by society. The film leaves little ambiguity regarding its interpretation, unless one is confused by Soldier's apparent attempt to paint the Darwinian...
...switch-over between cutting and chewing and the taboo against soup-slurping. But etiquette in American dining is about propriety and little more. According to the owner and chef of Cafe Japonaise, things are different in Japan. Sushi neophytes need more than a willingness to embrace the strangeness of raw fish. Eating sushi is a matter of taste and technique...
...position is somewhat undercut by hisdistinctive "engineering" style, which is perhapsthe most influential Albini legacy. Steve tries tomake it sound like the band is performing live inyour speakers, and he's quite good at this. Heusually mixes guitars and drums high and vocalslow. Music critics usually dub the sound "raw,"but this is a simplification...
...would be misleading to say that R.E.M. has simply reverted to Automatic For The People. The band continues to have some of the eerieness found in Hi-Fi, with echoes and added effects sprinkled into the background and a low, raw bass at times. Up seems to take a lot of the positives from New Adventures in Hi-Fi and combines them with traditional R.E.M. The absence of Berry, who left as the result of a brain aneurysm during the Monster Tour, translates itself into an exotic mixture of spacey beats on several tracks. Screaming Trees drummer Barret Martin...
...some songs come out of the woodwork after casual listening. The keyboard riff in "Lotus" gives the feel of a sixties song with the almost chanted lyrics of Stipe, with his lower voice dubbed over kind of like "Drive" from Automatic. The descending guitar gives a raw edge that shows the change over the course of the past two albums, but unlike their previous raw guitar pieces, "Lotus" blends the raw sound into the fabric of the song in a way that neither accents it nor leaves it too far in the background. "Lotus" seems to resolve R.E.M.'s conflicts...