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The movie, on the other hand, portrays war visually, making it hard to hide the horrors of battle. Rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of war violence,” this film is aimed at an older age group than the book. However, in the production notes, a quote from Steven Spielberg relates:
I thought the story was absolutely fascinating, and I was transported. In my mind it was a very honest story. I saw it as a movie for families–the journey of a boy and a horse who were once so close and whose destinies drive them apart. I hope this story will bring people together through this shared experience; its heart can be felt in every country.
Thus, they created a movie that is PG-13 instead of going all out with the blood and guts and making it R. Spielberg had a desire to make it more accessible to families with tweens or teens who are mature enough to handle the more violent scenes, which is a good thing because it can retain the heartwarming message and poignant yet not too harsh reflection on war that the book aptly put forth.
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First, a disclaimer: I’ve never seen the original 1972 The Mechanic that inspired this 2011 version. Of course I know Charles Bronson played the title role now taken on by Jason Statham and that Jan-Michael Vincent was in the original playing the character Ben Foster now plays. However, other than those most basic facts, I don’t know anything about the first The Mechanic, so this review is in no way a comparison of the two versions.
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Two sisters find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth. Melancholia also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere cheap five fingers , to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, (see Saturn), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of both enthusiasm and eagerness for activity.
In a modern context, “melancholy” applies only to the mental or emotional symptoms of depression or despondency; historically, “melancholia” could be physical as well as mental, and melancholic conditions were classified as such by their common cause rather than by their properties
The name “melancholia” comes from the old medical belief of the four humours: disease or ailment being caused by an imbalance in one or other of the four basic bodily liquids, or humours. Personality types were similarly determined by the dominant humour in a particular person. According to Hippocrates, melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, hence the name, which means ‘black bile’, from Ancient Greek (melas), “dark, black”, a person whose constitution tended to have a preponderance of black bile had a melancholic disposition. See also: sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric.
Melancholia was described as a distinct disease with particular mental and physical symptoms in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Hippocrates, in his Aphorisms, characterized all “fears and despondencies, if they last a long time” as being symptomatic of melancholia.
In the medieval Arab world, the Arab psychologist Ishaq ibn Imran (d. 908), known as “Isaac” in the West, wrote an essay entitled Maqala fi-l-Malikhuliya, in which he discovered a type of melancholia: the “cerebral type” or “phrenitis”. He carried out a diagnosis on this mental disorder, describing its varied symptoms. The main clinical features he identified were sudden movement, foolish acts, fear, delusions and hallucinations.
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On a train from Paris to Venice, Elise chooses her stooge by sitting across from Frank (Johnny Depp), Wisconsin’s handsomest yet charmingly-befuddled community college math teacher. Frank is, naturally, beguiled by the mysterious Elise but it turns out that the cops aren’t the only one after Pierce. The mobster (Steven Berkoff) and his goons are also chasing down Pierce and because of a case of mistaken identity, they’re now after poor Frank. It’s a charming premise that begins to lose steam as director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck seems more interested in capturing the beauty of Venice rather than developing the characters or devising exciting chase scenes.
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