It's one of many soulful questions asked by the partners of pregnant women, questions that include "why does my wife burst into tears now when she sees a baby squirrel?" and "why must the missus have coal to eat right this minute?" I like to get these queries in early when my wife and I discuss our days - I need to score a few cheap points since I know I'm about to get outclassed big time.
The soulful eyes in question belong to the Martini brothers, Derick and Steven, who wrote the script with Mr. Jordan and star as Chris and Tony Remi, siblings with radically contrasting personalities.
That's because, by way of hyperbolic drama, he's looking at matters of gender and, for that matter, of surgical transformation, with a sincere seriousness and a large dramatic question-mark of soulful mystery.
Richard Brody wrote that, in this film, Almodóvar "seems both to be stretching his talent into new realms and to be delighting in the paradoxes of sober and sophisticated scientific study converging to a stepwise madness" and added that he approaches his subject "with a sincere seriousness and a large dramatic question-mark of soulful mystery".
Perhaps some people find this bespoke Presidential consideration comforting, but that kind of unreviewable lethal authority vested in a single individual is, in the end, disconcerting, however soulful and conscientious the individual in question may be.
Taking my cue from Chris Hedges' 2003 book, War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, and my title from Edwin Starr's soulful Vietnam protest song, I foregrounded questions of meaning and mediation as the central inquiry of our course: How and why do we make meaning in war?
Not only did I fall in love with this soulful place, I came home with questions.
Mechanical yet still totally soulful, "Can You Feel It?" is always a rhetorical question.
Goodman answers his narrator's question through a story that is compelling, genuine, frightening, and soulful: when those of us outside such neighborhoods recognize ourselves as the same - hearts and minds -- as the ones inside.
The music was a big question mark: was it the right flavor for the neighborhood, funky enough, soulful enough?
This is soulful, jazz-inflected house music that still finds time to deal with the big questions of the day, from rising inequality to the security of our children.
