Literature
Anthony Lane, in his June 25, 2007 review of ?A Mighty Heart,? writes ?Only once does Mariane [Pearl] crack. Informed of her husband?s death and of its savage circumstances, she goes to her room, crouches over, and keens.? This is a significant misreading of that moment in the film. In fact, Angelina Jolie?s Mariane screams over her husband?s death before she learns the specifics of his execution. Afterward, when Mariane is told about the video of the beheading, she simply insists that she never wants to see it. This sequencing is key to the film, which, in its own vexed way, critiques spectacular uses of violence in a global-technological age: the fact that killings, missile strikes, and torture can be recorded and screened does not make their realities any easier to navigate. The paradox emerges at the point where we are supposed to feel, through Jolie?s cinematic performance of Mariane, that the felt consequences of violence are always beyond the limits of the spectacle.
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Literature
The limits of the spectacle
Anthony Lane, in his June 25, 2007 review of ?A Mighty Heart,? writes ?Only once does Mariane [Pearl] crack. Informed of her husband?s death and of its savage circumstances, she goes to her room, crouches over, and keens.? This is a significant misreading of that moment in the film. In fact, Angelina Jolie?s Mariane screams over her husband?s death before she learns the specifics of his execution. Afterward, when Mariane is told about the video of the beheading, she simply insists that she never wants to see it. This sequencing is key to the film, which, in its own vexed way, critiques spectacular uses of violence in a global-technological age: the fact that killings, missile strikes, and torture can be recorded and screened does not make their realities any easier to navigate. The paradox emerges at the point where we are supposed to feel, through Jolie?s cinematic performance of Mariane, that the felt consequences of violence are always beyond the limits of the spectacle.
- Meeting The Morels
A description and history of ?The Bottoms? which succeeded ?Hell Row? opens the Prose. It moves on to a description of Mrs. Morel?s house and the feelings of superiority she possess (3rd page). The preparations for the fair which she is taking her children...
- Plane Sighting, Found Essay
The other day I overheard a DJ on our local radio station talking about how President Obama was in New Orleans that morning. I was reminded of this a couple hours later when, while sitting in the backyard playing with Julien, Air Force One came rumbling...
- On Style: Sofia Coppola's "somewhere"
David Denby's review of the film "Somewhere" (in The New Yorker Dec. 20 & 27) astutely points out the director Sofia Coppola's penchant for hotel-bound characters. But while Denby castigates Coppola for being "fixated on a single subject," it...
- The Hollow Of The Three Hills Summary
THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLSThe Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor, deceit, and death. The author, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems...
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Two emerging writers, Sumaila Umaisha and Ifeyinwa Omalicha, will feature at the 28th edition of the Abuja Writers? Forum?s Guest Writer Session, which holds on November 27, according to the Forum?s PRO, Abudullahi Abubakar: The event, which holds from...