The film, written and directed by Nati Baratz, is a real-life examination of the same rituals and traditions observed in Martin Scorsese's "Kundun".
A real-life examination of competitive surfing in Papua New Guinea, the film derives tension from the proverbial big tournament but also from how the event helps foster a worthy morality.
Most actors would request "Long Day's Journey Into Night" but Forest Whitaker chose this slice-of-life examination of faded dreams, routines, and loss.
The survey methods used during baseline (mid-life) examinations complied with the WHO MONICA protocol, described in more detail elsewhere.
The first ("Overview of Clinical Worldview") with the aim to examine the participants' self-reported important issues during a "real life" medical examination, on a scale from 1 (no emphasis) to 5 (full emphasis).
It all crumbled after a visit to the doctor for a routine life insurance examination.
The "so-called life" under examination belonged to Angela Chase Claire Daness), a high-school sophomore dreaming of life beyond the suburbs of Pittsburgh.
While we do have enough of that in political life, closer examination of the term reveals that corruption can also mean degraded, demeaned, adulterated or rotten.
It's beautifully written in simple but brilliant prose, a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer.
Indeed, her three films are linked by a careful but nevertheless ruthless desire to uncover the facts of life under examination or, more accurately, the facts of lives that get shut up, literally and figuratively, because of the stigma the world places on difference.
