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I'd honestly give this movie a solid 7.5, but I clicked 10 to try to offset the 5 pages of imbecilic, unjustified 1-star reviews.
I first saw this fine documentary a few years back,when it received the unjustified "art house" release (it deserved far better).
So you can expect convoluted actions that mean nothing, unjustified behavior, and at least one truly pretentious plot element that will leave you utterly unsatisfied.
Every small exchange of words turns immediately into a lengthy, unjustified dialog that is so typical of an acting class rehearsal.
As in ''Peeping Tom'', the reaction was malicious and unjustified.
The sadness was normally due to the innocent victim (who was usually a beautiful woman) being murdered in an unjustified fashion, such as Desdemona in 'Othello'; the anger would have been directed towards the villain in the play whose dastardly deeds had resulted in the deaths of heroes and heroines - here we have Iago, arguably the most evil character in the history of literature ('Othello' again); sympathy was not for the devil, but for the poor people who had overcome the denouement but had to deal with its consequences (Horatio perhaps in 'Hamlet', or maybe Father Laurence in 'Romeo and Juliet'); and lastly relief was felt because the audience had survived the play's violence and could thank their lucky stars that they did not have to live in a world so cruel.
Plot is quite original for its suggesting war is terrible and wrong, not only because it is unjustified but because it has a corrupting impact on people, especially when they're back and return (try to..) civilization.
I and my friends had a great time watching this collection of dismal performances, tacky set design, a confused patchwork script, and completely unjustified invocation of serious themes like Vietnam and racism in support of exploitationist trash.
The wife too is shown as an irrational human being who would make unjustified demands on his apparently busy husband.
Her character is idiot, boring and silly and Dunaway chews her ridiculous lines with unjustified gusto because her Selena remains the lamest and worst of all the villains from the Superman-related movies.
There was a point - as the film was starting - that I felt that maybe I had had low and unjustified expectations of this film over the last couple of years: forget the bad reviews and box-office sales at the time of its release, and instead concentrate on the actual film itself.
They accuse the (understandably) pacifist survivors of complacency when they refuse to take up once again the weapons that destroyed their world, to wage an unjustified eugenic war of extermination against the deformed (but obviously human) surface dwellers.
The film demonstrates what many people have known intuitively--that the invasion was totally unjustified.
At the same time, the dismissive attitude towards Europe that one senses in America is unjustified and self-defeating.
But, in the medium term, the key will be labor rights: unionization and collective bargaining; prohibition of child labor, unpaid overtime, unjustified dismissal, and excessive outsourcing; and skills training to meet the economy’s changing needs.
The Fed should take care to prevent any breakdown of liquidity while keeping inflation under control and avoiding an unjustified taxpayer-financed bailout of risky bank loans.
Moreover, in a Gallup survey taken during Israel’s 2014 Gaza War, the majority of 18- to 29-year-olds thought that Israel’s actions were unjustified, while the majority of those 50 and older regarded them as justified.
Back in 1997, many Asians thought that the speculative attacks then being mounted on Asian currencies were unjustified, with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir leading the charge against speculators.
It has never been easy for a nation to face up honestly to the bitter fact of having committed war crimes, genocide, unjustified foreign aggression, or having mistreated and killed its own people.
They also see this victory as the main counter-weight to the memory of the USSR as a reign of brutal, unjustified violence.
Now consider the German voters who have turned against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her SPD coalition partners, mainly because they resent what they see as uncontrolled immigration and unjustified transfer payments to Greece.
Such fears are unjustified, for it is in China’s interests to keep the RMB from depreciating, particularly given China’s current external conditions.
Especially for “platform” markets, where companies exploit earlier investment to ensure entry elsewhere, this means that delays caused by unjustified regulatory restrictions can have a more profound negative effect, preventing potentially successful companies from entering the market.
In all markets, when innovators can enter easily and are not blocked by unjustified regulations, everyone stands to benefit – eventually even those whose occupations are disrupted or displaced.
Repudiating unwarranted and unjustified debts would be consistent with economic logic and international law.
It must now begin to carry out fundamental reforms: cut unjustified social benefits; liberalize services, labor markets, and digital markets; reduce labor taxes; deregulate industry; improve education; and promote research and development.
Harvard’s president at the time, Derek Bok, said that the university’s decision “was motivated by a desire not to be associated as a shareholder with companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings.”
But that argument is unjustified: while institutions such as the UN and NGOs may work on social development, they are under-funded compared to the ADB.
Public policy concerning mental illness must, therefore, consider carefully the potential for imposing unjustified social and political values on people in the guise of the classification of disease.
Russia's high import tariffs on cars would impose an unjustified consumer tax on Kazakhs.