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A true story about a true revolution, 25 of April ; a revolution against a repressive regime of 41 years, that was imposing a colonial war on it's military's, for maintaining an empire (Angola, Mozambique, Guine-Bissau, Cabo Verde, S. Tomé e Principe; the first and the last of the great colonial empire's of Europe) of 600 years, since it's beginning in the conquest of Ceuta in 1415; a revolution by the army for the people, and for a democratic Portugal; the most's surprising fact in this revolution is that it were no people killed in it (except those that died in the hand's of PIDE, the political police of the State, during a brutal gunfire against an unarmed crowd protesting in front of it's headquarters in the day of the revolution, in 25 of April 1974, has it show's on the film).And has all revolutions it has it's heroes, one them of was Captain Salgueiro Maia, a returned soldier from the war, whose convictions along with the rest of the army, was that they were fighting (since 1961) a hopeless war, and that sometimes a soldier has to disobey it's country.
The principals and moral convictions in Purple Rain are quite strong and if more movies would rely on the basics we are taught as young children we would have a better all around environment seeing that art reflects life which reflects art.
She brings her way of dealing with the law, which means more than simple convictions.
This is not the most original film you will see, but it has the courage of its own convictions, and the strong performances make you care.
With intensity and sincerity the movie shows how the religious convictions and traditions drove a wedge on a loving and passionate family.
After all, the Rosenbergs' convictions and executions made Roy Cohn into a celebrity.
There is also the fact that the movie is deeply insecure; one feels that it would like to be a cold-war style espionage picture but does not have the courage of its convictions so tacks a cheesy and implausible action sequence onto the end.
Dealing to be impartial and generous with the last work of Carlos Reygadas, I could recognize its effort to obtain a different film, cradle absolutely in personal convictions and without considerations for the Box office.
This is a documentary dealing with the appeal of Aileen Wuornos murder convictions .
Why do all movie Quakers have paper thin convictions to their morals?
Eye of God is a well-crafted independent film that is fatally flawed by its reliance on a current mainstream-film cliche as a central plot element: that any character with religious convictions will be revealed in the course of the film as a psychopath.
Both Steve McQueen and Burt Lancaster were sent to prison for murder convictions although allegedly McQueen was innocent.
The character and his motivations were too undeveloped to understand his convictions and his actions, and I feel that it is irresponsible to release such a superficial overview to the West.
He is a man of deep convictions.
A Catholic missionary goes into the Canadian wilderness to find a lost mission and the journey challenges his most ardent convictions.
The US went to war in Iraq on the basis of Bush’s gut instincts and religious convictions, not rigorous evidence.
Iraq is a Shiite-majority country, but Saddam’s political apparatus was dominated by Sunnis, many of whom had acquired deep religious convictions during a period of Islamization in the 1990s.
This is the fundamental problem of the méthode Macron: his policy pronouncements – vague to the point of not being implementable – somehow lack the courage of his European convictions.
The trouble is that the convictions have taken place against a background of fear and divisiveness, stoked by the Chinese government’s behavior.
In a sense, we have to go back to Darwin’s original, pluralistic convictions.
It has conducted high-quality trials, which adhered to the standards of due process and resulted in both convictions and acquittals.
But de Gaulle’s vision of government resonated with the convictions of many French and, above all, with many public intellectuals.
The Indian idea is that a nation may contain different castes, creeds, colors, convictions, cuisines, costumes, and customs, yet still rally around a consensus.
Muslim religious and political leaders have the intellectual capital to refute their misplaced religious convictions, and can repeat sura after sura, hadith after hadith, detailing Islam's rejection of violence and repudiation of the killing of innocents.
Making Culture CountConstitutions express a political community's history, culture, values, and political convictions.
There have been few convictions for these crimes.
The situation escalated sharply earlier this month, when Yameen refused to comply with the Supreme Court’s unanimous order quashing the convictions, which he had engineered, of nine opposition figures – including the exiled former president, Mohamed Nasheed – on terrorism charges.
And, invariably, he acted on his convictions.
But in 2006 Yanukovych was charged with falsifying the very documents used to expunge his earlier convictions.
Throughout it all, Blair has shown the courage of his convictions.
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