Sulu's gay identity here is not much emphasised, but unlike the coy and evasive hints in the recent Independence Day movie, the statement is clear enough.
"Thalal al Sampt" ("The Oppression of Silence"), by Abdullah al-Moheissin, is an art house science-fiction film about government oppression, while "Cinema 500 km" chronicles one man's drive to Bahrain to watch a movie, a statement about Saudi Arabia's narrow personal freedoms.
"The DPRK has clear evidence that the US administration was deeply involved in the making of such a dishonest, reactionary movie," the statement said.
Perhaps the most poignant scenes in the movie were statements from the indignant Chevron spokespeople, insisting on the company's innocence, as images of oil-coated streams, dying animals and cancerous children play out on the screen.
If movies are statements about the world around us, then one purpose of the Academy Awards is to adjudicate the year's best cinematic manifestos.
The movie was a statement about overreliance on special effects in horror films.
But we were also after lines which, to some extent, worked as standalones, condensed versions of a movie's mission statement.
Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher of Red Wagon Prods, the producers who developed the movie, issued a statement yesterday decrying the decision to ask them to cut their agreed fees.
Ms. Jolie defended the movie in a statement, saying there "are many twists in the plot that address the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters and that will be revealed once the film is released.
McClane's braggadocious response to the first terrorist he catches, who stands up to him, serves as the movie's own statement about the right way, rather than the approved way, to dispatch a miscreant: "You won't hurt me".
