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...just this sort of ambivalence, as reflected through the layered performances, that make the movie appealingly believable: unlike with many Hollywood productions, we feel more empathy than awe or shock. The film has the uncanny ability to make a snide audience realize they're really groaning at their own actions lit up on screen...
...even bigger shock to my stereotyping sensibilities to hear one of the men order a round of "double mochas, dry please." Not only did they drink coffee in the yuppie-est of places--they drank complex coffee. Cultured coffee. Sophisticated coffee...
Generally, however, prime targets are high-profile places with relatively open access, such as the World Trade Center or the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, that will have a great deal of shock value to the general public by making them wonder if they, too, could be in danger...
...carry him through admirably. Yet it is often more compelling to watch Kiefer Sutherland, a brother of a slain redneck, encountering evil greater than himself during his Klan warm-up meeting, or Chris Cooper (again as a sheriff, markedly different from his "Lone Star" role) grimacing his way through shock and pain...
...first priority. One official from the National Transportation Safety Board said families have been shown videotapes from the ocean floor to help them understand the hostility and danger of the environment in which divers are working. Says TIME's Elaine Rivera: "Eventually the families will get over the initial shock of their loss, and anger will begin to set in. Then, they'll want to know who did this. So investigators are put in a difficult situation of balancing both the retrieval of bodies and the parts of the plane that could end this mystery." Rivera added that the investigators...