Paine was vehemently attacked in his own lifetime if the scurrilous biography was not invented for him it certainly attained something of an art form in his depiction.
From the first, it seems, Eva's son had a malevolent, alien quality – and the movie gradually attains something of the overt, if realist cuckoo-in-the-nest scariness of the likes of Rosemary's Baby, The Village of the Damned or even The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
If we're to believe most of what we see on TV these days, the love for actually attaining something of value, something of substance, has been replaced with the love to feed the ego and the lust to feel important and better than.
It's compelling to think that you will feel happier when you attain something external be it a material item or some measure of success.
There is someone trying to attain something out of it by abusing the embattled politicians, political leaders and their supporters". Politicians in the Balkan countries, in general, are known for manipulating masses with various "conspiracy theories," usually claiming all problems are "imported" from the outside.
This is a grave weakness (some will think it an invalidating one) but it is also what enables Cimino to attain something approaching the tragic grandeur of a popular epic… The Deer Hunter is a rich and powerful picture that without a trace of patronisation or the slightest touch of cultural superiority, speaks eloquently for the inarticulate.
And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.
We know this is just the beginning of a long fight to attain something that should have been ours from the beginning.
While there have always been familial and social pressures to perform academically, and while some people have always attempted to get or attain something with the least amount of energy expended, I would ask what effects has our age of standardization, corporatization, globalization, privatization, and deregulation of the business, banking, and corporate sectors have on learning?
