http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/12/17/071217crci_cinema_denby
It's interesting how the movie adaptation, a loose one, focuses on character -- and it's disintegration, and "loses" the socialist literalism of Upton Sinclair's original.
The director and the actor revealed very little plot, but analysed character a lot in a recent interview with Charlie Rose.
I haven't seen the film yet, but think the screenplay -- leaked by Paramount, is masterful.
Kyi May Kaung.
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
I don't think my hero has a religion--I don't think he's a Christian--he's certainly non-conformist and his family
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