It is 1919, and the older Marcel stands before a stage erected in his Paris apartment -- a salle du théâtre -- and narrates the story of his teenage self (portrayed by Chad Kimball) and Albertine (Kelli O'Hara).
But what we see as the adult Spider looks on, sharing the frame with his younger self (portrayed by Bradley Hall), is a bizarre Oedipal drama in which his alcoholic, abusive father (Gabriel Byrne) seems to murder Spider's long-suffering mother (Miranda Richardson) and move a cockney prostitute into her place in the family home.
Then, unprompted by questions, the maulana began an enthusiastic self-defense, portraying himself as a reasonable man of virtuous restraint.
Over the past month, as the evidence of vote stealing piled up, Mr. Karzai's ministers carried on with extraordinary self-confidence, portraying the fraud, and the runoff itself, as a nuisance that, once overcome, would allow them to get on with their jobs.
The self she portrayed is a fictional creation based on her biography, as the daughter of a German-Jewish father and a mestiza mother, and the sufferer of debilitating injuries incurred in a trolley accident when she was eighteen.
Where Ralston is radically different today, in the flesh, compared with his pre-accident self as portrayed by Franco in the film, is in his recognition that he depends on other people.
Ali was an instant star himself when he first appeared on television, and later, on film – both in documentaries (When We Were Kings, 1996) and when his fictional self was portrayed by others such as Will Smith Alii, 2001).
This entails constructing a positive identity whereby the self is portrayed as virtuous and held in high regard (Dutton et al., 2010).
One version of this denial charges that by focusing on our access to our mental states, standard accounts of self-knowledge portray the thinker engaged in self-reflection as passive, a mere spectator (or detector) of a cognitive show.
On Broadway in 1971, these younger selves were portrayed by Kurt Peterson, Harvey Evans, Virginia Sandifur and Marti Rolph.
Yet the most ardent settlers — the most political, aggressive, and self-regarding — portrayed themselves as players in an eschatological drama.
