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But the book--a slow-burning, noir thriller with lots of pulp--should have translated into an Oscar-contending film instead of this dud that couldn't figure out whether it should faithfully portray the hard-boiled, gritty crime story of the book, or opt for a 1980s Schwarzenegger shoot-em-up spree.

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But we don't see nor portray developing communities the same way.

Portray them sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people and not as diagnoses.

So almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today, but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

I collect proslavery books that portray black people as criminals or as animals without souls.

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