The Help Movie Review

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The Help is one of those films that rolls out every so often with the idea of reaffirming a generalized point of view that no one can possibly deny having anyway... now, in any sufficiently large public forum. It's the 1960s, we're in Jackson, Mississippi, and there is some technical sense in which people of color are no longer slaves. The film lays out the conflicting attitudes of white … [Read more...]

The Village – Movie Review – I See Boring People

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In Whit Stilman’s Barcelona (a movie I love, but can’t quite call ‘great’), Chris Eigeman’s character wonders about sub-text. To paraphrase - Everyone’s always talking about the sub-text, he says, but what’s the stuff that’s not the sub-text? The text, comes the quick reply.  I faced a similar sort of dilemma at the end of M. Night Shyamalan’s effort The Village. Where, I … [Read more...]