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Oh yes, and there's love too, which generally takes place between the bullets rather than between the sheets.
Another, more minor issue for me was that despite the copious amounts of bullets and arrows flying about, barely a drop of blood is seen in the movie.
There was always a surprise around the corner, whether one of pace or image or sound or performance or turn of the narrative - though in fact it's a very straightforward story, told in a linear fashion, but that description really doesn't do justice to a sequence such as when we go to the ballistics lab at the police station, Mifune learns about a bullet found at the scene of a crime, and then he dashes off without any warning - and we follow him - to a shooting range at which we'd seen him early on in the film, retrieving a spent bullet of his own, and then we dash back to the ballistic lab, and then go into a microscopic close-up POV ballistics man, comparing the two bullets.
It's not all bullets -- the gore is quickly passed over, and there's a lot of athleticism to add some interest, as well as some arty overtones by way of O's interest in photography, and even a brief, artfully-done sex scene.
Just bullets flying, people dying.
If you want to watch explosions, car chases or flying bullets look elsewhere.
The cartoon like violence is another negative, with villains firing automatic weapons that consistently miss our heroes at close range, while our heroes guns seem to have an endless supply of bullets.
But after he turns down an offer to sell to a shyster for $10 million, the laser bullets begin flying in his direction.
But if the US meets bullets with words, tyrants will draw their own conclusions.
Hamas’s determination to assert its authority can be gauged by the desecrated corpses of Fatah fighters, many of them with bullets fired at their heads, a practice dubbed “confirmation of death.”
Globalization’s AssassinThe world’s first wave of economic globalization, led by the British Empire in the nineteenth century, came to an end literally with a bang on a Sunday afternoon in 1914, when Gavrilo Princip killed (with two uncannily well-aimed bullets) Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
But the bullets and clubs unleashed on Buddhist monks have worked.
Bombs and bullets alone cannot defeat political poison.
No one adds up the costs of betraying, yet again, what America claims to stand for, even while witnessing people willing to march – in the face of bullets – for precisely those universal values: dignity, freedom, democracy, and equality.
Stop the Band-Aid TreatmentThe Middle East is a tinderbox, with some key players on all sides waiting for every opportunity to destroy their enemies with bullets, bombs and missiles.
The future of Iraq will be decided by the people of Iraq, but with bullets, not ballots.
The rallying cry “Down with the Czar!” was brought out of obscurity and onto the streets of Moscow almost 100 years after Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II, was riddled with Bolshevik bullets in a Yekaterinburg cellar.
If central banks save their “rate cut” bullets for a later day, they may find that their ammunition is useless.
Recent reports from the war-ravaged Central African Republic indicate that more children there are dying from hunger than from bullets.
A century ago, the German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich introduced the concept of “magic bullets” – compounds engineered to target and kill tumor cells or disease-causing organisms without affecting normal cells.
So influential have medicine’s triumphs over bacteria been that the “war on cancer” continues to be driven by the assumption that magic bullets will one day be found for tumor cells if the search is sufficiently clever and diligent.
Indeed, the parallels between cancerous cells and invasive species suggest that the principles for successful cancer therapy might be found not in the magic bullets of microbiology but in the evolutionary dynamics of applied ecology.
But it may be time to temper our quest for magic bullets and recognize the cold reality of Darwin’s evolutionary dynamics.
If that can be accomplished, “magic bullets” to fight cancer, heart disease, and other disorders might someday be possible.
Similarly, patients must recognize that there are no “silver bullets” for pain treatment.
Indeed, while “silver bullets” that can cure our most feared diseases have not been found, progress in the area of gene-drug interactions, known as pharmacogenomics, has been extraordinary.
He fell back on a defining speech in Israeli history, General Moshe Dayan’s eulogy for Roi Rothberg, a young soldier riddled by bullets from the Gaza Strip in 1956.
While chavismo arrived in power via the ballot box, its leaders wished it had done so with bullets, like their hero Che Guevara.
In many of these cases, they were right: without recourse to guns and bullets, nothing in their countries would ever have changed.
Indeed, not only are governments running out of fiscal bullets as debt surges, but monetary policy is having little short-run traction in economies suffering insolvency – not just liquidity – problems.
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