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...every young English Schulkind cherishes and commits to memory. However, Branagh explores the complicated ironies of the triumphant underdogs. With long and short shots, we see the full-scale massacre of chaos as well as the upclose bitterness and mudspattered savagery of war. Branagh's final elegy is a tragic pacan to the misery of battle. Corpses strewn across the fields in a violent fashion are a gruesome testament to the brutal pain before us. Branagh plays up the ambiguity--he lets us recognize the real feelings and the victims of war, while at the same time Henry can revel...
...film is a product of attitudes towards science in its time, thus ruling out Shelley's tragic father-son relationship. The 'science' of phrenology, the study of the physical characteristics of the skull as an indicator of personality and behavior, is used as a horror technique, obscuring true possibilities of horror. The brain transplanted into Boris Karloff's monster is that of a psychopathic criminal, presumed to be preprogrammed for murder and mayhem. The revealing of this fact to 'Dr. Frankenstein extracts a reaction of dread at the inevitable terrors such a brain, reanimated, will produce. Yet Karloff...
...progression of their characters. Robert Levy gives the strongest characterization as the flamboyantly gay experimental actor, Sparger. At first, Sparger seems stereotypical, but as the play continues one sees that this is just a front for a truly painful and completely atypical past. Levy handles the comic and tragic aspects of his role with deftness and humor, carefully balancing the outrageous and the all-too-human aspects of Sparger's personality. Dana Gotlieb is subtly effective as Wanda, a substitute teacher for whom the assassination of JFK has become an obsessive symbol of lost innocence and missed chances. In Gotlieb...
...flood struck with sudden brutality. In one of the most tragic episodes, Catherine and Forrest Langlinais's car slipped into 12 ft. of water in Chambers County in the midst of a torrential downpour. As the vehicle came to a stop, the father grabbed his two-year-old son and his baby, who was born only two months ago. Attempting to scramble to safety on the roof of the car, he lost his grip on the infant, who immediately disappeared in the swirling water; the child's body was found Wednesday...
Reaching an agreement hasn't been easy. Implementing it will be harder -- and Pyongyang fears that the new Congress, assuming it is more conservative, may move to upset the bargain. That would be tragic. The deal is a good one. And by holding out against those who urged a course that could have led to war, Clinton has proved his strength and made the world safer...