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"Civil union" instead of marriage is like the old segregationist policy "Separate but equal", which the late Thurgood Marshall argued, if it's separate, it's not equal.
Likewise, if it's called "civil union", it's not "marriage".
Buster Keaton's "The General" is set in 1861, the year the American civil war broke out.
The system, of course, raises civil liberty issues, but seems to work perfectly, that is until Anderton is fingered for a murder.
Also, check out the civil war general played by Mike Donlin.
I understand the ending is a clear political (or civil) message to the audience, and i give de oliveira credit for being so brave, but i think he might have over-simplified the issue of terrorism.
As someone who was apathetic about the semantics of "marriage" vs. "civil unions", I found this movie to be very informative and very well done.
It's about protection of all of our civil rights.
The Israeli military continues to demolish Lebanon with gay abandon whilst Hezbollah returns fire with its rockets; Shia and Sunni are at each others throats whilst Baghdad, Basra et al crumble in the midst of unacknowledged civil war; thousands die every day from aids, hunger, poverty, disease and neglect.
Willem DaFoe is a by-the-book FBI investigator and is assisted by ex-Southern-sheriff Gene Hackman in the real-life inquiry into the deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.
But Romania in a civil war , with rebels , with desert and , let's take the hypothetical scenario and believe it.
A salesman of dictionaries about the civil war is about to be fired.
I'm a law school student, and I was horrified that people, in our country or in others, do not protest that they have some basic human and civil rights in interrogation settings.
There's a 25-foot-long crocodile running amok and yet this movie mainly criticizes how the Western world shamelessly turned its back on the poverty & civil war issues in Burundi.
It contains many of the trademarks of other Ealing comedies - the little people facing oppressive civil servant types and capitalism, lightly fantastical moments, a sense of community spirit etc. - yet these elements fail to gel this time round.
Set in the American civil war, Johnny Gray goes on a one man mission to get his beloved train and girlfriend back after both are stolen at a routine stop.
Aside from JFK, the English civil war is my favourite period of history.
Also, think about this... European nations and most South American nations freed their slaves without a civil war.
As someone who was involved with important issues like the Vietnam War and civil rights and free speech, I was totally offended by the film's nihilism, the ideas that students demonstrate just because that's what today's students do, and that there are no substantive issues involved.
Buster Keaton once said that if he hadn't been a comedian, he might have been a civil engineer.
Not simply Sudan, but the LRA's child soldiers of Uganda, the gruesome and pervasive civil wars in Burundi, DRC, and the Cote d'Ivoire.
Coming out of the era of civil rights don't think this subject matter wasn't a projection of society in which many sub-cultures where finding ways to be empowered.
Such a powerful story about the disappearance of three civil rights workers down in rural Mississippi.
Still, the film more often than not resembles a hearty civil service recruitment ad (underlined with smug machismo), and is photographed and scored as such.
The ambitious and job-conscious civil servant character is drawn in a heavy handed manner and disturbs as to the motivation of the director.
Even the worst actor, Thornton Edwards playing Pedro - a Mexican stereotype that would have every civil liberties group out against you today, has moments that are funny.
Even though some of the action sequences are kind of interesting,(with the civil war and all), and the special effects are okay, it just doesn't make up for the film's garish cheesiness (seriously, when the crocodile was chasing Orlando Jones through an open field, was it supposed to be serious?).
A very small company, Night Eyes Security, composed of two Griffith brothers, is tasked with guarding the Beverly Hills estate of a British pop musician, Brian Walker, and his wife Nikki (Tanya Roberts) but after she discovers her husband making the grade with a young woman during a party in their home, Mrs. Walker files for divorce, following which Mr. Walker hires Night Eyes to supposedly protect his soon-to-be former wife at their Malibu residence, although his true purpose is to obtain damning video tapes from surveillance cameras that he hopes will record Nikki's own sexual misconduct, thereby crystallizing his courtroom defense for their looming civil trial.
Hitler himself fought in the war and was lying in hospital when the war ended and all these factors had far more importance in the creation of Nazi Germany than Hitler's father being a civil servant .
After watching Seraphim Falls with Pierce Bronson, a hardboiled western set after the civil war, you can tell the difference in the quality of direction and writing, and it was just so much more fast paced.
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