Operations: Sophie Ristelhueber
Sophie Ristelhueber, Bruno Latour and David Mellor
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In Sophie Ristelhueber's large-scale artworks and installations, the photographed landscape appears...
US Agricultural and Food Policies: Economic Choices and Consequences
Gerald D. Toland, William E. Nganje and Raphael Onyeaghala
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Policy analysis is a dynamic process of discovery rather than a passive exercise of memorizing facts...
Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
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For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In...
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne and Donald M. Frame
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This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first...
Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater
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Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process,...
Strings of Pearls: A Collection of Poems
Janie Hextall and Barbara McNaught
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While having fun with Washing Lines: A collection of poems, Barbara and Janie discovered they have...
The Eternal City
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A heart-warming tale of sibling rivalry, secrets, love and death, steeped in local colour and noise...
Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Jojo Rabbit (2019) in Movies
Jun 27, 2020
I stand corrected on my initial assessment.
Jojo Rabbit is a hilarious take on the life of a child during Nazi reign in Germany. Adolf Hitler is represented as an imaginary friend of a young man who is coming into his own. I know, this seems wicked dark and awful at the same time. But the way that it's approached by the film makers creates an environment that educates and enlightens to the times that were lived by the people of Germany while making it a bit lighter so that it doesn't weigh down all of your emotions to the point of not being able to carry them.
There are some very serious moments and I wouldn't recommend watching with young children (that should be a given if you watched the trailer). However, it is well worth a watch, or even a second. The acting alone is worth a second look.
Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Ergo Proxy in TV
Jul 18, 2020
Earth had become un-inhabitable and the remaining humans live in the Utopian domed city of Romdo aided in their lives by autoReiv's, androids that act as anything from butlers to children. However, things in Romdo are not as idyllic as they seem, the AutoReiv's are being infected with a virus that gives them emotions, the ruler is close to death and mysterious monster known as a proxy is on the loose . It falls to Re-l Mayer, a female detective and her friends, Vincent Law, an immigrant and Pino, an autoReiv child to go down to the the dead planet and find out the secrets of the Proxy's.
Ergo Proxy is a philosophical story that is almost always questioning what it is to be human, the story is very slow paced giving the characters time to reflect on what is happening.
There are a few times where the plot seems to contradict its self but these issues are solved by the final episode.
The characters are interesting and the story draws on inspiration from other works such as Pinocchio, the Wizard of Oz and Icarus all mixed together in a dystopian, cyberpunk future.
The Modern Savage
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In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating...