Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
Jim Jarmusch:
Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.
John Donne:
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.
In an opinion piece published on the news website, rue89, the anonymous duo - political science and communication students in their twenties - said the film was a tongue-in-cheek way of criticising France's niqab ban, which the Senate passed last month and is due to go into force early next year.
"To put a simple burka on would have been too simple. So we asked ourselves: 'how would the authorities react when faced with women wearing a burka and mini-shorts?," asked the students, one of whom is a Muslim.
When an entirely new and untried political project is sprung upon the people, they are startled, anxious, timid, and for a time they are mute, reserved, noncommittal. The great majority of them are not studying the new doctrine and making up their minds about it, they are waiting to see which is going to be the popular side.
Aditya Dev Sood:
Perhaps it all makes sense, for the point is the clothes she is wearing, not the character she is playing.
Alan Kay:
We can't learn to see until we realize we are blind.
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeeth Date - The Zeppelin Zoo
Topic: Arts
7:49 am EDT, Oct 6, 2010
Our man Morgan and his lovebuddy Destiny, along with Mssr. Foodpenguin and that dastardly dip-stick Lionel premiered to two jam-packed houses in Austin.
Jonathan Lethem:
Bob Dylan's originality and his appropriations are as one.
The same might be said of all art.
Stanley McChrystal:
You have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. You have to be able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope.
Mike Zhang considered himself serious boyfriend material.
But Zhang, a 28-year-old language tutor and interpreter, couldn't afford an apartment in the capital's scorching property market.
Rather than waste any more time, his girlfriend of more than two years dumped him.
Homeownership has become the ultimate symbol of virility in today's China.
John Bird and John Fortune:
They thought that if they had a bigger mortgage they could get a bigger house. They thought if they had a bigger house, they would be happy. It's pathetic. I've got four houses and I'm not happy.
Nick Timiraos:
A new report estimates that nearly one in five mortgage defaults through the first half of 2009 were "strategic," where borrowers who appeared to have the capacity to pay their mortgages stopped doing so.
How an incident happens may reflect nothing about the incident itself, but it must reflect something about the person involved in the happening, and supplying the how.
Five people interpret an action, and each interpretation is different, because, in the telling, and in the retelling, the people reveal not the action, but themselves.
Brad Blanton, a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist, says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. Oversharing? No such thing.
I have a theory: I think Blanton devised Radical Honesty partly as a way to pick up women. It's a brilliant strategy. The antithesis of mind games.
Janelane, on Dmitri the stud:
At least he had the courtesy to tell her he was good in bed so she knew what she was missing out on!
"Leonard Nimoy":
It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth?
The answer ... is No.
Paul Graham:
I'm not saying we should stop, but I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why.
Jacobs:
If you're going to be a schmuck, at least you should find some redeeming quality in it.
One of the best parts of Radical Honesty is that I'm saving a whole lot of time.
Penelope Trunk:
Stop talking about time like you need to save it. You just need to use it better.
Stewart Brand:
In some cultures you're supposed to be responsible out to the seventh generation -- that's about 200 years. But it goes right against self-interest.
Petraeus could be just the man to do for Obama what he did for Bush: help reframe the problem and walk away from unrealistic goals while projecting determination and making things better in some small concrete ways.
Timothy Ferriss:
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Charlie Brooker:
Suddenly there is no stick. There's just you. You are the stick.
It starts with Software, where rebel robots bring immortality to their human creator by eating his brain. Software won the first Philip K. Dick Award.
In Wetware, the robots decide to start building people -- and people get strung out on an insane new drug called merge. This cyberpunk classic garnered a second Philip K. Dick award.
By Freeware, the robots have evolved into soft plastic slugs called moldies -- and some human "cheeseballs" want to have sex with them. The action redoubles when aliens begin arriving in the form of cosmic rays.
And with Realware, the humans and robots reach a higher plateau.
On the internet:
I just hope the public won't ever be bullied or bamboozled into letting the bosses bottle up the genie. That's something we need to keep an eye on.
On "Infinity and the Mind":
It is in the realm of infinity that mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise from this merging, we can learn a great deal about the human mind, its powers, and its limitations.
Like every great science fiction novel, "Frek and the Elixir" is really about the present -- about the power of corporations, about media and entertainment, about bioengineering, about quantum mechanics, about your wife or girlfriend, your next-door neighbor, and your boss, and about you, at age twelve, and now.
On "Spaceland":
Spaceland challenges readers to imagine what life might be like in a world with four spatial dimensions.
