Word: stoning
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Short answer: You can if you're Oliver Stone, with your filmmaking skills concentrated on World Trade Center and your sometimes loopy political opinions--not to mention paranoia--nowhere in evidence...
...what may be the film's most striking image, a vision of Christ appears to Jimeno; he is offering him the thing Jimeno most wants--water--but Jimeno rejects it. It may sound banal (or possibly over the top) in the recounting, but it is a tribute to Stone's artfulness that it perfectly symbolizes the life-or-death dilemma the pair is confronting. And oddly, the man who first discovered McLoughlin and Jimeno alive was David Karnes (Michael Shannon), a former Marine, who as written by screenwriter Andrea Berloff comes across as a slightly weird religious Fundamentalist. He simply...
...They absolutely think we're leaving," said retired Marine Colonel Thomas X. Hammes, author of The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. "This is what happened in Afghanistan when it became clear the Russians were leaving. The factions began fighting each other." Afghanistan is instructive: civil war led to the Taliban government; the Taliban provided a safe haven for al-Qaeda; and you know the rest. A U.S. skedaddle from Iraq would probably lead to far worse consequences, given Iraq's strategic location and potential oil wealth. So what do we do now? I asked...
...sergeant asked how long she had considered murder. Two years, she said. "Since I realized I have not been a good mother to them." Mehl watched her movements. She looked him in the eye. She nodded. Sometimes she answered, "Yes, sir." But she would sit in 15 seconds of stone-cold silence if he asked too much. She could give only short answers to simple questions in their 17-minute conversation as she twice recounted the order in which her children were born and died...
...said she was a lousy mother. The death of her children, she said, was her punishment, not theirs. It was, she explained, a mother's final act of mercy. Did not the Bible say it would be better for a person to be flung into the sea with a stone tied to his neck than cause little ones to stumble? And she had failed her children. Only her execution would rescue her from the evil inside her--a state-sanctioned exorcism in which George W. Bush, the former Governor and now President, would come to save her from the clutches...