Refusing
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Refusing
to take a political stand, when making a movie about the Cuban revolution, is an odd and cowardly choice.
Mellisa crying and
refusing
to do an exit interview, just proves to America what everyone thought, you are a spoiled baby.
It was really good to see Paul Rieckhoff and Camilo Mejia tell about the difficulty in surviving not only the war, but
refusing
the command to go back when it was against personal morals.
Refusing
to take a vacation he is given a simple case which takes him outside of San Francisco.
After being sent to prison for no less then 10 nor more then 40 years for being busted with drugs and
refusing
to give up her accomplishes, Jackie (Erica Gavin of Russ Meyer's "Vixen" and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", in her last film role) has to get accustomed to life in the big 'doll' house, or at least try to, in this early film by Jonathan Demme.
In Canadian director Kari Skogland's film adaptation of the Margaret Laurence novel The Stone Angel Ellen Burstyn is Hagar Shipley, a proud and cantankerous woman approaching her nineties who wishes to remain independent until the very end, stubbornly
refusing
to be placed in a nursing home by her well-meaning son Marvin.
The simple minded comments,
refusing
to accept a father who tries to lay down the law all the while sensing that he may possibly be off-track, expose the limitation of the commentator, not the writers or the acting.
Two teenagers, one knowing of his homosexuality, and one
refusing
it.
In Lost In Translation, it is Bill Murray's affair with the otherwise anonymous band singer despite
refusing
overtures from Scarlett Johanssen.
It all has a certain well-measured charm, even if the whimsical wordplay gets overbearing quite often, and ultimately it loses this charm when it is decided that the character Marie is maintaining her dignity when
refusing
to read aloud pornographic material by de Sade for a geriatric judge and his friends, while finding no moral objection in allowing herself to be seduced by another client.
The character development of Ku, is particularly impressive - initially
refusing
to grow up and take on responsibilities such as marriage, and eventually becoming a cunning freedom fighter and protector of a child.
Rosaleen has inherited her late husband's substantial fortune and she and her brother David Hunter are
refusing
to share it with other members of Gordon Cloade's family.
As he had done in the First Season, excellent Sci-fi writer Johnny Byrne provides some of the best scripts in Season 2, usually much more serious than other stories, obviously
refusing
to bow down to Freiberger's 'Scooby Doo action' idea as Freiberger himself described it, lots of action with lots of often silly humour.
Ever have that day when someone gets on your nerves and you feel like pulling the axe on them?That's exactly what John Waters demonstates in his dark comedy Serial Mom.After starring in the cheesy family movie "House of Cards", Kathleen Turner has created one of the best performances in her life as the beautiful, heroic, misunderstood, law-obeying serial killer Beverly Sutphin.Eversince six murders, she has been placed with some "terribly untrue charges" and the only 'serial' she knows "anything about is Rice Krispies!".But she has good reason for butchering six people: they all commited a crime that no one understands, like dumping her daughter, eating poultry (because Beverly loves birds),smart-alacing about her dentist husband,
refusing
to rewind a rental tape, critisizing about her family skills, and witnessing one of the other five crimes.You may think she's insane, but really, she's just expressing things we'd rather hide inside of us.Like, say you work in a store and someone wants to return something but they don't have the recipt.It can't be returned without the recipt, so you tell them "No can do".Then they start cursing you out like you're worthless.Wouldn't you get the urge to shove a bullet in their brain?Well then, you now know how Beverly Sutphin feels when someone decides to be a wise guy.This movie is perfect for anyone who loves to laugh.Plus, the DVD contains the theatrical trailer, a behind-the-scenes featurette, several TV spots, four interview clips, and extra behind the scenes footage.I give this one a 10/10!
Refusing
any sensational or sentimental approach, it is just made out of testimonies, and patiently, slowly tries to understand how such a thing could happen.
Which means to place the testimonies in the center, and
refusing
any reconstitution or archive images.
Monster because he is leaving all social convention behind and
refusing
to submit himself to any kind of structure.
The last third of the film is an improvement over the lethargic first two thirds, but the movie ends
refusing
to explain itself.
The cliché of the Oedipally challenged father
refusing
to relinquish his jilted grip on his daughter is far from a stranger to our screens.
The United States stands nearly alone in
refusing
to join the Land Mine Treaty, the Rights of the Child Convention, or the International Criminal Court.
But now congressional Republicans are
refusing
to adapt the unemployment system to this reality; as Congress went into recess for the holidays, it gave the long-term unemployed the equivalent of a pink slip: as 2014 begins, the roughly 1.3 million Americans who lost their unemployment benefits at the end of December have been left to their own devices.
Will Greece, the twenty-first century’s “sick man of Europe,” persist in
refusing
to reform?
But, just as Japanese conservatives are rightly taken to task for
refusing
to acknowledge the horrors of their country’s colonialist past, so China would do well to expand discussion of its own wartime history at home.
More to the point, US corporations aren’t hoarding trillions of dollars in cash and
refusing
to make capital investments because the tax rate is too high, as Trump and congressional Republicans claim.
At the top were 25% who had a police record for exceptionally good behavior, like
refusing
to pay bribes or to overlook corruption.
Or imagine Russia
refusing
to respond positively to NATO’s offer of a cooperative relationship: she would be the first to suffer.
To be sure, many observers have poked fun at Macron for
refusing
to commit himself to one side in any debate.
Refusing
to consider any amount of monetary financing, and continuing to adhere to a strict inflation target, would have been much more difficult to justify.
Refusing
to prioritize, dealing mainly with the most publicized problems, is wrong.
Imagine doctors at a perpetually overrun hospital
refusing
to perform triage on casualties, merely attending patients as they arrived and fast-tracking those whose families made the most fuss.
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