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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:30:03 +0900

If ever a movie had a case of the blues and the blahs, it’s “Spider-Man
3,” the third and what feels like the end of Sam Raimi’s big-screen
comic-book adaptations.

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A movie featuring Ice Cube bellowing "No more profanity. When the
moneyed inner-city entrepreneur Quentin Leroux (Harry Lennix) builds a
lavish competitor called Nappy Cutz right across the street from Calvin's
shop, the battle is on — Calvin has to fight to keep his business alive. The
cinematographer, Sean Kirby, has done some striking work here. In this
comedy, a cop assumes a new identity in his valiant battle against crime: an
elderly grandmother. Determined to maintain his cover, Malcolm disguises
himself as Big Momma, and now has to convince Sherry (and everyone else in
the neighborhood) that Big Momma's still in town.

For my taste, a little goes a long way. board gets something entirely
different. Generous, civic-minded adults from diverse backgrounds tell life
stories with very similar and telling features, studies find; so likewise do
people who have overcome mental distress through psychotherapy. Researchers
have found that the human brain has a natural affinity for narrative
construction.

“Younger kids see themselves in terms of broad, stable traits: ‘I like
baseball but not soccer,’ ” said Kate McLean, a psychologist at the
University of Toronto in Mississauga. The pride of college graduation is
spoiled when a friend makes a cutting remark. The wedding party was
wonderful until the best man collapsed from drink. A note of disappointment
seems to close each narrative phrase. But there is nonetheless a feeling of
finality about “Shrek the Third,” a sense that the tale has at last reached
a state of completion.

If ever a movie had a case of the blues and the blahs, it’s “Spider-Man 3,”
the third and what feels like the end of Sam Raimi’s big-screen comic-book
adaptations. This film seems to be "All About the Benjamins," to use the
title of an Ice Cube action comedy.

When the moneyed inner-city entrepreneur Quentin Leroux (Harry Lennix)
builds a lavish competitor called Nappy Cutz right across the street from
Calvin's shop, the battle is on — Calvin has to fight to keep his business
alive. Much has been made of the film’s look, and it’s easy to see why. The
thief's girlfriend Sherry (Nia Long), who is also the mother of his child,
lives in a small Southern town, and Malcolm plans to set up a stake-out in
the house across the street from Sherry's. However, the house is owned by
Big Momma (Ella Mitchell), an older woman with a sharp tongue and no
patience for back talk, and when Big Momma has to leave town, it leaves her
house suspiciously empty. With the decline of manufacturing and few formal
jobs, many residents make a meager living off one another’s misery. Instead
they go to a Koranic school, where they learn the Koran by rote. But there
is nonetheless a feeling of finality about “Shrek the Third,” a sense that
the tale has at last reached a state of completion.

Will he take over his father-in-law’s business or remain true to his
vocation of bellowing and smashing things? Which is only to say that “Shrek
the Third,” directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui from a script with a
half-dozen credited begetters, already feels less like a children’s movie
than either of its predecessors. After exploring the predominance of
violence in American culture in Bowling for Columbine and taking a critical
look at the September 11th attacks in Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker
Michael Moore turns his attentions towards the topic of health care in the
United States in this documentary that weighs the plight of the uninsured
against the record profits of the pharmaceutical industry.

As it happens, the over-all shape does recall a Busby Berkeley musical —
snappy story, lavish number, snappy story, lavish number — but without the
snap or fun. When the moneyed inner-city entrepreneur Quentin Leroux (Harry
Lennix) builds a lavish competitor called Nappy Cutz right across the street
from Calvin's shop, the battle is on — Calvin has to fight to keep his
business alive.

Characters don’t just walk in this film; they float across the frame,
pouring like liquid toward their inexorable destinies. Big Momma's House
gained considerable pre-production publicity when Lawrence fell into a coma
while jogging in a heat wave before the film's start date; Lawrence claimed
that he was trying to lose weight to fit more comfortably into his
character's "fat suit." But if you like Lyle Lovett songs, Thomas McGuane
novels and sardonic country yarns sung by grizzled Texan “outlaws,” you’ll
have no trouble slipping into its easygoing groove, fortified by its
country-rock soundtrack. Smirks are to be had, but no belly laughs.
Moreover, the tone, the lessons, even the facts in a life story can all
shift in the changing light of a person’s mood, its major notes turning
minor, its depths appearing shallow. Yet in the past decade or so a handful
of psychologists have argued that the quicksilver elements of personal
narrative belong in any three-dimensional picture of personality. People
tend to remember facts more accurately if they encounter them in a story
rather than in a list, studies find; and they rate legal arguments as more
convincing when built into narrative tales rather than on legal
precedent.

In analyzing the texts, the researchers found strong correlations between
the content of people’s current lives and the stories they tell. By
contrast, so-called generative adults — those who score highly on tests
measuring civic-mindedness, and who are likely to be energetic and involved
— tend to see many of the events in their life in the reverse order, as
linked by themes of redemption. In broad outline, the researchers report,
such tales express distinctly American cultural narratives, of emancipation
or atonement, of Horatio Alger advancement, of epiphany and second
chances.

Jonathan Adler, a researcher at Northwestern, has found that people’s
accounts of their experiences in psychotherapy provide clues about the
nature of their recovery. Yet Mr.Adler found that in fact those former
patients who scored highest on measures of well-being — who had recovered,
by standard measures — told very similar tales about their experiences.

To better understand how stories are built in real time, researchers have
recently studied how people recall vivid scenes from recent memory. “What
our experiment showed is that this shift in perspective, having this
distance from yourself, allows you to relive the experience and focus on why
you’re feeling upset,” instead of being immersed in it, said Ethan Kross,
the study’s lead author. You cannot create and nourish a robust baby merely
on foods from plants. Nutritionists used to speak of proteins as “first
class” (from meat, fish, eggs and milk) and “second class” (from plants),
but today this is considered denigrating to vegetarians. It contains many
necessary components, including cholesterol (which babies use to make nerve
cells) and countless immune and growth factors. That’s why health officials
in Britain, Canada and other countries express caution about soy for babies.
Now, your neighbor or sibling may be a meat-eater or vegetarian, may ferment
his foods or eat them raw.

An adult who was well-nourished in utero and in infancy may choose to get
by on a vegan diet, but babies are built from protein, calcium, cholesterol
and fish oil. An indulgent professor spared her ‘the ordeal of the lecture
theatre’. And so to the policy challenge we now face.

As early as 1972, Peter Karmel, then heading the Australian Universities
Commission, described the Australian higher education system as a ‘continuum
of educational opportunities’. As in 1966, there is now a university sector
marked by uniformity, and a higher education industry outside, populated by
numerous niche providers.

Hence the benefits of expanded and free education went to middle-class
families. The government was supposed to make improving the nation’s
infrastructure a priority — President Olusegun Obasanjo, elected in 1999 and
stepping down next month after two terms in office, campaigned on the
promise of more electricity. Despite billions spent on the problem, all that
changed was the name of the state power company. In the first movie Shrek
(voiced by Mike Myers) met and wooed his lady love, Fiona (Cameron Diaz); in
the second he got to know the in-laws. The current installment finds him
faced with impending fatherhood and something of a career crisis. Will he
take over his father-in-law’s business or remain true to his vocation of
bellowing and smashing things? But then again, so did my kids.)

After exploring the predominance of violence in American culture in Bowling
for Columbine and taking a critical look at the September 11th attacks in
Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions
towards the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary
that weighs the plight of the uninsured against the record profits of the
pharmaceutical industry. The story this time unfolds as a series of
increasingly dreary and teary melodramatic encounters regularly interrupted
by special-effects-laden fights. Most of the decisions involving this sequel
to the spirited original "Barbershop" — a movie that itself cobbled together
pieces of other projects — are about carefully retracing the steps of that
2002 hit in order to keep those $100 Benjamins flowing.

The cinematographer, Sean Kirby, has done some striking work here. The
prowling camera and dusky colors give much of “Zoo,” which opens with the
portentous image of what appear to be miners emerging from a tunnel, a
sumptuous, almost velvety look and vibe, an effect enhanced by the repeated
use of slow-motion photography.