Retreat
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Mallrats, the story of two friends who coincidentally both lose their girlfriends
retreat
to their local mall to work out their love lives and get back together with their girlfriends.
Once they actually get into the dialogue it becomes apparent the script has vast layers to it, it essentially is a comment on modern existence and the conflicting views held by people, it uses the two characters in the film as symbols of society; Andre representing the new age thinking, while Wallace represents the rational scientific mind and shows the conflicting desire of wanting to
retreat
back to primitive living to find our humanity but also wanting to enjoy the benefits modern society grants us.
Laura (Belen Rueda) returns to the orphanage she spent time in as a child with her husband Carlos (Fernando Cayo) and little boy Simon (Roger Princep) in hopes of re-establishing it as seaside
retreat
for children with disabilities only to find there may be some former residents who never left.
It's about 4 lady friends who are waiting for their husbands to meet them at their summer
retreat.
All over the world, senior actresses are forced to
retreat
into the background while the juicy parts go to the younger women.
there are a few scenes that cinematic ally are good, the opening scene is exciting and almost hard to watch, the fight at the
retreat
is good.
So we get the inevitable "musical differences" which cause him to leave his band The Stray Cats, encounters with groupies, strained relationships with the estranged wife and son he left behind, his rise to solo mega-stardom and eventual
retreat
to a drug-filled existence leading to the inevitable downbeat conclusion.
The Diner is the gang's own little retreat; unfortunately, it seemed 'Closed Indefinitely' to people like me.
Nice views in the movie, but there are no snow-capped peaks in Vermont during the summer(the
retreat
depicted in the movie took place in Vermont).
For that matter, the historical
retreat
did not take place in summer, but in fall (October).
Before all of the present day knucklehead mash of mindless teenage movies, this intelligent, Oscar nominated (for best picture) film shows the last night of summer
retreat
for a group of young people in a small northern California town, one of whom is about to head back east to attend college.
The views of both the inside of the monastery and the outer surroundings enhanced the feelings of the 'separateness'of the mountainside
retreat.
Monetary tightening was not the only major policy error of the 1930’s; so was a
retreat
into protectionism, symbolized by the Smoot-Hawley tariff increases at the beginning of that decade.
Now they are in rapid
retreat
from that market, creating a worrying gap that Asian banks are seeking to fill.
He will most likely opt for a tactical
retreat
in the confrontation.
The Soviet army’s
retreat
in 1988 is usually ascribed to the Afghan insurgency, led by Pakistan-trained mujahedeen with support from the United States.
They will need to adopt a fighting spirit and signal confidence in their cause, rather than succumbing to complacency or resigning themselves to a long-drawn-out
retreat.
And every time populist-driven referenda against EU treaties force governments to
retreat
into technocracy, the populist narrative is reinforced.
From Poverty to EmpowermentMUMBAI – As India gears up for its general election next month, it has some cause to celebrate: extreme poverty is finally in
retreat.
Today, that brand of populism is (knock on wood) in
retreat
across Latin America.
The first concerned the environmental devastation that he could observe – including the
retreat
of glaciers and the loss of land cover – as he flew from Bhutan to India.
What the US and EU countries have in common, politically, is the use of false claims and scare tactics to compel citizens to
retreat
inward.
LAGUNA BEACH – The
retreat
of the advanced economies from the global economy – and, in the case of the United Kingdom, from regional trading arrangements – has received a lot of attention lately.
Nor is democracy in
retreat.
No statement could be better crafted to provoke a
retreat
from the greenback.
The Americans, meanwhile, are preparing to
retreat
from a decade of war in the Afghan hills and valleys.
The danger now is that, in order to resolve domestic partisan political disputes, such as between Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and the CDU’s Bavaria-based sister party, the Christian Social Union, EU governments have opened the door to a
retreat
to bilateral agreements to solve intra-EU migration issues.
A splinter group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has claimed credit for several recent attacks and kidnappings of foreign workers, and says it will not
retreat
until Delta states gain control of the revenue produced by locally extracted oil.
But globalization itself is not in
retreat.
The worst inter-communal fighting took place in the plains to the east of the Alawites’ mountain strongholds, raising the suspicion that Alawites were preparing for a
retreat
to their native region in the event of the regime’s collapse and were trying to expand the area under their control.
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