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“Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.”

Ifs Knows Film Actors Capable Built Chosen Lead In

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.”

“just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.”

Source: The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde

“The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”

Men Firsts Art Matter Play Film Form Capable Tricks Demonstrating

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations