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It is as much a statement on the
evils
of mindless bureaucracy as any I have seen.
Dad is a drunken newspaperman who can't hold a job, his mother is a crotchety whiner who demands breakfast in bed while trying to sneak booze away from her son, his oldest son is a Communist constantly spouting off about the
evils
of capitalism, the youngest son plays hooky from school to go to prizefights and his daughter is having an affair with a married man.
I haven't made up my mind whether I prefer Chaney Jr. or Carradine as Dracula (literally the lesser of two evils) but the saving grace of this movie is that it has one of the best plot twists I have ever seen in this genre.
I think this was simply a dramatization about the
evils
of totalitarianism from a 1960-ish perspective.
Young Oshare, the niece of the woman who owns the house, may or may not be changing in ways that she & her friends would prefer not to happen, while the other girls are merely falling victim to the
evils
of the house.
I assume that MANY who saw it in 1949 were VERY disappointed because instead of the tough guy Bogart, he is a lawyer who decries the
evils
of slums and how it produces career criminals.
The plot attracts your entire attention as you live the experiences of these three kids in Berlin, and their quest to denounce the
evils
of capitalism.
If you need an example of the
evils
of corporate and media convergence, this uninspiring film is it.
Aiming to be a "metaphoric" spy movie about the
evils
of secrecy and the wounds of childhood, the film fails for having plot devices instead of characters and a sloppy, unconvincing direction, resulting in an overall bore.
But, as I watched it, I was reminded of the propaganda films they showed in junior high and high school about the
evils
of drugs, and the threat of venereal disease.
However, if you ignore that warning and continue to watch, all sort of
evils
will escape from this Pandora's box: a machine that allegedly blows up but only showers sparks like a sparkler; hand-held camera shots with that home-movie look; a cliche villain/capitalist; the cliche battle between the scientist sexes; a brief earthquake scene of a city (looks like a postcard) wherein one tall building starts to crumble like a jigsaw puzzle; an odd puffy-faced (like he just had his wisdom teeth removed) twenty-something Whil Wheaton making a joke about his ex-wife...This is no modern "Crack in the world," no hidden diamond in the rough but a depressing clunker.
If Benigni wanted to make a film about a father protecting his son from the
evils
in the world, he could have invented any situation or set of circumstances he wanted.
In the name of sex education and the eradication of the
evils
of socially transmitted disease, the film begins with the earnest entreaty that "Ignorance Must Be Abolished".
In Jericho, they seem to have an endless supply of beer at the bar, the booze is flowing, nobody is hungry, they are not defending their city against unknown evils, its hard to imagine that anyone on the writing staff has a clue about what a struggle daily life would really be like in a post-holocaust world.
Glad to see a TV special that tackles the subject honestly and does not sugarcoat the
evils
of this nation's history.
These competing vetoes explain May’s only strategy for delivering Brexit: to tell MPs and EU leaders that they must choose the lesser of two
evils.
To that end, the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, which I chaired, has launched the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) as a declaration of war against mass illiteracy and the
evils
of child labor, child marriage, and discrimination against girls.
So it is, in a way, and in the hands of authoritarian regimes, genetic selection could resemble the
evils
of earlier forms of eugenics, with their advocacy of odious, pseudoscientific official policies, particularly concerning “racial hygiene.”
Last month, US President Barack Obama, in setting out his broader foreign-policy stance, spoke of Syria’s three
evils
– brutal military tactics, the terrorist threat from the opposition, and the need to support refugees.
The nurse at the hospital spent more time lecturing him on the
evils
of homosexuality than telling him about the drugs he was taking and their possible side effects.
The reason is clear: it is, thankfully, no longer fashionable to decry colonialism's
evils
in assigning blame for every national misfortune.
The
evils
most deeply resented – in all societies – are injustice, despotism, corruption, and poverty.
Rather, Americans should worry about the potential of their institutions to facilitate
evils
that are, as loath as we are to admit it, as American as apple pie.
Germany needed no lessons from Milton Friedman on the
evils
of inflation.
But Viktor Yanukovych, the current Ukrainian president, denies the special suffering of the Ukrainian people – a nod to Russia’s official historical narrative, which seeks to blur the particular
evils
of collectivization into a tragedy so vague that it has no clear perpetrators or victims.
For many who supported him, he was the lesser of two evils: his rival was backed by two powerful politicians implicated in corruption scandals.
The New Grammar of PowerMADRID – Humanity’s main concerns today are not so much concrete
evils
as indeterminate threats.
So the Church’s teachings about the
evils
of Nazism were crystal clear to everyone.
Or he could post further inflammatory tweets about the
evils
of Islam, thereby driving disturbed and marginalized individuals into the arms of the Islamic State (ISIS) or other extremist groups.
But it is not so strong as to leave those who would fight it with only the politics of the lesser of two
evils.
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