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The directors have broken some boundaries with this film.
Continuity of events is often broken, confusing scenes at the beginning with young Queen and a doll, hard cuts between shots, loss of drama in events, it doesn't look like a feature film to me, it's more like Discovery Channel DVD to me.
I've read criticism of Kirkwood's performance (Jake), that he seems uncomfortable, but he's playing a damaged, possibly broken hearted character, so his discomfort/awkwardness could be part of his performance.
Eternity and a Day (the director really knew what he meant) is an art-house movie made after an infallible recipe to win critical acclaim and eventually those great prizes of the broken hearted that will never make a blockbuster.
Of course I feel for everyone and yes its clear the health care system is broken but ultimately this movie is more manipulation than anything.
I had him a goner, but if he could have survived, how so without a broken back?
Beyond moral judgement, I liked this portray of a girl who decided to break a barrier that had never been broken and therefore become as unique as one can be.
Anyway, he brought his shades into school and they were all super-glued b/c he had previously broken them.
a joke of a writing job does nothing to show how kate is broken or anything else for that matter.
Odd, then, that the series' major weakness is that there's too much going on, too much action and not enough quiet spots, which makes for a rather relentless and one-note viewing experience when it's not broken up into its original chapters.
Lise refuses to be broken by her Nazi oppressors and, subsequently, becomes the object of the camp commandant's obsession.
Despite of all the setbacks and jail sentences, the main character does not get broken.
Although there have been other homosexual films involving this issue, they had them broken down and rebuilt to fit a film.
Rounding out the cast was Pat Hingle, who's performance of a broken down man living in the home brought me to tears.
Again some teenagers going into trip and of course their car is broken... YES - it happens in the woods, in isolated place, and YES - they're haunted by some ugly freak...
Wilson, a respected president in the annals of history, comes off as a stubborn man who resents the ladies' picket lines and allows them to be imprisoned, even when he knows they have not broken any laws.
Hitchcock had already broken other conventions over the years, some being of a technical variety (the nine minute uncut takes on ROPE for instance).
There is a lesson here: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
The triad of fundamental forces driving Egypt since the beginning of the Arab Spring – the military, the mosque, and the masses in Tahrir Square, each with different types of power and interests – was thus broken.
Reshaping the Labor LandscapeDAVOS – As the global economy changes at an ever-quickening pace, the labor market in many countries is not merely struggling to keep up, but seems to have broken down in important ways.
But, given the shortage of good alternatives, we must not assume that bad habits of thought can never be broken, and we should keep the possibility of more enlightened policy constantly in mind.
Trade union power was permanently broken after long and painful national strikes.
And if the commitment to introduce monetary union and a common currency is broken, the backlash could deal a fatal blow to European integration.
To appreciate fully the unique character of this consumer-demand shortfall, trends over the past 21 quarters need to be broken down into two distinct sub-periods.
The challenge facing Russians is to ensure that, when it does, they have broken their destructive dependence on belief in him.
The Colombian model of transitional justice acknowledges that national reconciliation is achievable only if the communities broken by the long, savage war are repaired and revitalized.
In the decade since the last crisis, Argentine policymakers have broken almost every rule in the economic-policy playbook.
If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big and should be broken up.
The current crisis has actually been burning underground for some time, and has broken to the surface now because the Moscow Patriarchate fears that there is a real possibility that John Paul II will be invited by President Putin to visit Russia on governmental matters.
The convergence of interest rates was broken when a newly elected government in Greece revealed that the deficit incurred by the previous government was much larger than had been reported.
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