In contrast, Enemy of the State demonstrates in depth how terrorism and other high crimes can be fought, using the technology of electronic eavesdropping, communication satellites, and computer hacking, thus making privacy obsolete. Although most filmviewers will doubtless assume that the high-tech gadgetry is yet another Hollywood fantasy of director Tony Scott (of Crimson Tide […]
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In The Siege, nominated for the best film of 1998 raising consciousness of the need to protect both democracy and human rights, Edward Zwick (director of Courage Under Fire and Glory) poses a hypothetical: What if terrorism graduated from retail bombings to wholesale slaughter in New York City? What would government authorities do? Would the
In Predrag Antonijevic’s Savior, the protagonist (Dennis Quaid) spends most of the film as a terrorist. An American whose spouse and son are killed by a terrorist bomb in Paris, throws a bomb in a mosque, joins the Foreign Legion, and ends up fighting for the Bosnian Serbs as a terrorist, inflicting atrocities in acts
THREE FILMS SHOW HOW ANTI-TERRORISM METHODS IMPERIL LIBERTIES In The Siege, nominated for the best film of 1998 raising consciousness of the need to protect both democracy and human rights, Edward Zwick (director of Courage Under Fire and Glory) poses a hypothetical: What if terrorism graduated from retail bombings to wholesale slaughter in New York
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Never before has the filmviewing public been sensitized to the conditions that spawn the American neo-Nazism of the skinheads. In American History X, British-born Tony Kaye zeroes in on race relations within the United States in graphic detail (though he has attempted to dissociate himself from the film because the studio has changed a lot
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“AMERICAN HISTORY X “ NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM ON PEACE Never before has the filmviewing public been sensitized to the conditions that spawn the American neo-Nazism of the skinheads. In American History X, British-born Tony Kaye zeroes in on race relations within the United States in graphic detail (though he has attempted to dissociate himself
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“REGENERATION” NOMINATED AGAIN As a film that brings to light the war protest of poet Siegfried Sassoon, who claimed that Britain’s role in World War I changed from defender to aggressor and therefore wanted to become a conscientious objector to the war, Gillies MacKinnon’s Regeneration has been nominated for an award as 1998’s best exposé
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The second nomination in the category of peace is “Regeneration,” a British film directed by Gillies MacKinnon and based on the novel by Pat Barker. The film begins with a scene displaying the squalor of the trenches of World War I and then focuses most of the film on soldiers psychologically unable to continue at