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I did not find any of the characters to be particularly interesting, nor did I appreciate its stereotypical and racist demonizing of middle Eastern culture - as if Egyptian women really behave or look like that!
None of the characters speak or behave in a way that is even remotely believable.
This simplistic view of two "mental illnesses" gets dressed up with 1) obsessed chick arranging to meet (and sleep with, equally of course) wheelchair bound guy via the plot device of anonymously informing him of a human interest story (he is an NPR-radio-station-type reporter) 2) utterly stupid 'human interest story' (an urban legend style boffo about a bunch of people who "wannabe" paralyzed for no particular reason whatsoever) 3) "magic fred astaire shoes" (of course, again, the shoes are nothing more than a mental "crutch" the guy is subconsciously using to give himself a reason to walk... that enable wheelchair guy to walk...after falling down a lot, only very slowly, with crutches or a cane...sort of like you'd expect someone who has been working out to retard muscular atrophy but who hasn't stood or walked for years to behave when finally standing and walking... 3) a few couldabeengreat lines that came off as too silly to be taken half-seriously because of the trying-to-be-an-allegory but frankly rather silly plot.
Maybe a warning to the youth of today that are starting to behave like those of the eighties?
This has some things going for it, but the way these nasty characters behave is beyond imagination.
This movie is full of embarrassing clichés (e.g. the asylum inmates behave absolutely unnatural) and looks to me like a "work in progress" that was finished by all means.
Violet grew up in this house full of prostitutes, without a childhood, never knowing how to behave as a child.
She grew up knowing how to behave in order to promote business in their 'house'.
There are many weaknesses in the script, but the most obvious is its failure to give any of the characters any real sense of where they come from, what motivates them, and why they behave as they do.
I gave it 2 for some attempt at historical detail... To echo another reviewer, all the actors behave as in the 20th/21st centuries, not the Victorian 19th.
The actors behave far too freely and with hardly any attempt at the formal dignity, stiff social restraint of the time, and no apparent attempt to represent the social mores and customs of the era.
The very proper instructors at this school, behave very mysteriously (they must know something:).
Why should governments behave differently?
Markets cannot be left to correct their own mistakes, because they are likely to overreact and behave in an indiscriminate fashion.
That’s not much of an explanation of why being reminded of money should make so much difference to how we behave, given that we all use money everyday.
Indeed, Iran has shown its ability to behave with startling pragmatism more than once, not least in its links to Israel and the United States during its war against Iraq in the 1980’s, and in its assistance to the Americans in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Behind this is the notion that respect for human rights can be enforced externally, together with the hope that rulers will behave better because they recognize that they may be held accountable for violating human rights.
In domestic affairs, no German government can avoid the Bundestags powerful committees and commissions, or force them to behave as the government wishes.
Until now, Trump has made no effort to behave in an honest or reliable way.
It is high time that Krugman – right or wrong – learned to behave that way, too.
This would enable central banks to hold instruments that behave like a widely diversified global equity portfolio.
And their publics are not pressuring them to behave otherwise.
There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.
History suggests that this time is highly unlikely to be different – and that it will not end well if the Fed continues to believe and behave otherwise.
Spain after the Franco dictatorship stabilized itself by granting autonomy to its regions, which in many ways now behave like independent units.
In other words, in the face of the crisis, the ECB needs to behave much more like the older central banks.
If the US can behave so badly without apology, Putin’s thinking goes, why should Russia be denied its sphere of influence in, say, Ukraine?
When such coalitions of convenience are not only possible but common, voters who try to behave rationally are forced to confront the irrational outcomes of their own behavior.
For starters, their imperial legacies constrain them to behave like nineteenth-century Great Powers, not as part of the globalized and inter-connected world of the twenty-first century.
This idea is completely at odds with how rational individuals behave.
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