Новости за 25.11.2015

The contours of the outsider-as-favorite Republican primary began to take shape this summer, when the candidates without establishment support, led by Donald Trump, consolidated half of the vote in national polls.

Laquan McDonald seemingly breathed his last through the bullet holes. As he is perforated, you don’t see his blood so much as the visible air that escapes from his freshly made wounds. It looks like bursts of exhaust. The first shot has already come, a mere 30 seconds after officer Jason Van Dyke arrived and began firing from a considerable distance. It drops McDonald immediately to the street—not like some kind of cinematic villain, but with a sickening verisimilitude. But you already know that what you’re seeing is all too real... Читать дальше...

I love Thanksgiving. There is a coziness to it, a distinctly autumnal serenity, a hush that falls over conversations even when the house is full of friends and family, a warm note that colors all my memories of Thanksgivings past. Thanksgiving fits in the rhythm of the year; it matches its season well and provides a perfect vista to the remainder of the holiday season, portending all the good that is still to come. Thanksgiving makes perfect sense. The only problem is the collective decision we’ve... Читать дальше...

Movies, especially those “based on a true story,” can too often be waylaid by politics: The Imitation Game suffered from a desire to make Alan Turing a gay martyr, Selma was plagued by accusations of distorting history, and Suffragette felt too much like a history lesson. The danger of making movies about social justice, civil rights and gender equality is that the movie can feel heavy-handed—art becomes activism. 

There was a moment in the second Democratic presidential debate that perfectly illustrated the difficulty of dislodging the media’s comfortable narratives. The topic was health care, and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders lined up in their familiar positions: Clinton defending Obamacare and citing ways to improve it, Sanders supporting a national single-payer plan to guarantee health care as a right and not a privilege. These are the two dominant poles on the Democratic side: building upon Obamacare, or simply overhauling it. Читать дальше...

Jessica Jones has a problem with doors. Interviewing a missing person’s roommate, she barges in without knocking; confronting an estranged friend, she appears not in the lobby but on the apartment’s terrace, like Superman courting Lois Lane. When we first meet Jessica, played by Krysten Ritter, in the opening moments of Jessica Jones, she’s tossing a belligerent client through the glass panel in her home office’s front door, destroying the only real barrier between herself and the big, bad world. Читать дальше...