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Now, look around: just look next to your neighbor, look forward, look backward.
Most of our cultural heritage has tended to look backward, romanticizing the past.
And yet, I do believe that in every social space, in every public space, there is a desire to communicate more than just that blunt thought, that blunt technique, but something that pinpoints, and can point in various directions forward, backward, sideways and around.
So, always avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
The government thought that this is a very backward area and we should bring a multi-million dollar project to bring water from the Himalayas.
And the ones in the middle are all of our patients from the start of lithium at time zero, going forward, and then going backward.
We store potential energy to the elastic skin to make it move, or use active tension cords to make it move forward and backward.
I selected 2,000 years as my minimum age because I wanted to start at what we consider to be year zero and work backward from there.
The film lurches backward and forward in fits and starts, its central figures adrift and seemingly out of place surrounded by the ersatz decadence of towering sets, the minutia of production detail and the, by 1984, cliche'd but gorgeous cinematographic confection on offer to the audience.
The representation of the other, of the Israelis, was racist, backward, and unfair.
Also, Laramie is portrayed in a poor light by this pseudo-documentary, which of course is hardly surprising because they are the backward hicks who must be educated by omniscient and enlightened Californians.
A mediocre indie and a step backward for Schaeffer.
This magical aircraft managed to morph from a 757 to a 767 to a 747 in an hour and the power levers worked backward.
Oh my God what the hell happened here?!! I'm not going to say this again but what sort of backward movie is this?
Like they used to say about the Beatles'songs, there was a secret message if you played the LP backward.
These were the days when the teachers still showed classroom films on reel-to-real and if you were good, they would rewind the movie slowly so you could watch it play backward.
Lars Von Trier is never backward in trying out new techniques.
The best scenes are on Guadalcanal, where he's in a machine gun nest trying to fend off the advancing Japanese soldiers in a hellish looking night time battle, and later a dream sequence in the hospital where he sees himself walking down a train platform with a white cane, dark glasses, and holding out a tin cup, all the while his girlfriend walks backward away from the camera.
Altman and his ilk, think all of us who live in the "fly over" states are a bunch of backward rubes who just don't get it, cause we vote republican.
The worst thing about it is that its view of male-female relationships is so backward - especially in a movie set in modern-day San Francisco!.
This movie was a bit too racist for me to enjoy and it was not a comedy: the dumb blonde woman stereotype; the backward Mexican peasants; the White-Anglo New England anthropologist having to explain the mixture of pagan/Catholic religious beliefs to a Mexican who should already know this stuff!
Rather condescending in its attitude towards western stars (as non-western movies tended to be in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s), Cowboy From Brooklyn was another step backward in the (temporarily) fading career of Dick Powell.
Anyway, the dog does all kinds of deadly tricks, like a curling iron in the bath tub, jumping out of the seat of a car to scare the owner backward into oncoming traffic, and even strangulation of her owner's boyfriend with the dog leash while he's dozing up against a tree.....and the guy is dead and the dog is lying by his side as though nothing had happened, and the cops are looking for someone that strangled him while a 100-lb.
Part of the fascination is how the Taliban managed to be so primitive and backward (basically anything that didn't exist at the time the Koran was written was verboten, with the exception of weapons and vehicles for them to get around in) and the peculiarities of Islamic attitudes and practices that distinguished the Taliban from, for example, the Khymer Rouge in Cambodia or the Nazis in Germany, although there are also parallels.
His backward ass tactics would have gotten him busted long before this movie does.
But this film integrates a variety of story lines and looks to take the viewer on a forward and backward ride forcing you to think about what you missed and what is yet to come.
This movie is a giant step backward from the 80s Umrao Jaan.
The feature lacks any semblance of professional polish but manages to convey the backward, clannish atmosphere of a rural Georgia town where flash storms and downed power lines gradually unleash a terrible, crawling menace.
This movie shows Slovakia like some kind of backward, poor and dirty country.
The big question now is whether Europe can accept the lifeline that Macron is offering, and look forward to a new project, rather than backward to old struggles.
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