Tag: movies
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Sensibility and Sense
She Rides Shotgun was better than expected but ultimately unsatisfying. Polly is approached after school by a seeming stranger, who is her biological father, and recently released inmate, Nate. Nate wants to protect her from the gang that has already killed Polly’s mother and step-father, and that is searching for them, by taking her to…
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Wanting and Waiting
I decided after listening to an actor interview to see The Life of Chuck but left the movie theater frustrated and confused. This movie uses reverse chronology to tell Chuck’s life story from losing his parents and unborn sister in a car crash as a young boy and later his grandparents who raised him to…
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No Doubt
I am increasingly, and sometimes uncomfortably, aware of how little I know. I actually expected the opposite. I assumed that I’d know more after reading and living more, and working longer as a professor. I’m not suggesting that I’ve lost knowledge. I cannot remember details and facts that I could once easily recall, but I…