![]() ![]() In the book, Jan and Antonina carried cyanide pills on them at all times, to be used if their secret should be discovered. He is shown fighting the Germans at one point, but it's handled so haphazardly it's not clear what's going on. Jan's involvement in the Polish Underground and the Home Army, his weapons stashes all over the city, his long absences, are sketched in, if that. It's an Edenic world.īut so much information is missing, including the real personalities of these eccentric and tough people. The couple's villa, on the zoo premises, is filled with an eccentric menagerie: badgers and parrots and a pair of baby lynxes, snoring in bed with the Zabinski son Rys (the Polish word for lynx). She is called to the elephant yard to aid with a suffocating baby elephant, and is able to remove the obstruction from the baby's trunk all while calming down the panicked mother elephant. ![]() The opening sequences are effective, showing Antonina's daily routine before the bombs start falling, her affinity for animals, her Snow-White-like gift for relating to them on their level. There are also some fictionalizations that come straight out of the familiar and cliched Nazi-movie playbook. "A human zoo," Antonina ( Jessica Chastain) breathes, when Jan ( Johan Heldenbergh) suggests they take in Jews. The film adaptation, written by Angela Workman and directed by Niki Caro (" Whale Rider"), has many lovely and moving moments but fails to capture the many layers of this unique story, relying instead on plainly-stated metaphors. Only 2 of the 300 Jewish "guests" (as they referred to them) hidden in the zoo were captured by the Nazis and murdered. Sometimes the metaphor was a bit strained, but Antonina's vivid journals (she also wrote a children's book about animals) was the thread that held it all together. Diane Ackerman, an author who focuses on the natural world, told the tale in her book The Zookeeper's Wife, dovetailing stories of animal camouflage techniques with stories of human survival. Considering that the German army had commandeered the zoo for an armory, this "hiding in plain sight" strategy was extremely risky. PERIOD DRAMA / WWII / LAZY COUCH AFTERNOONįilm Cousins: Europa Europa” (1991, Poland) “Defiance” (2008) “In Darkness” (2011, Poland) “The Book Thief” (2013).It's a great-and as yet untold-story: Jan Zabinski and Antonina Zabinska, Polish husband and wife zookeepers, owners of the Warsaw Zoo, opened their zoo to Jewish refugees after the September 1939 German invasion of Poland, and continued to "host" people throughout the occupation, smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto, hiding them in animal cages and basement tunnels leading from the house to the zoo. ![]() “The Zookeeper’s Wife” is based on a book of which I believe has gained merited admiration, but the adaptation is an odd case where I feel everything told to me came secondhand. If she raised an octave, I was thinking, it might break the accent. To hide her discomfort with it, Chastain speaks in a low, low voice for the entire film as if calm determination was the note absolutely called for – which it should not. I couldn’t forgive Chastain’s accent either after a certain point. Little bits and pieces snagged my attention for a moment, that’s it. I never felt immersed into the film though. Fine, there are some interesting cutaways to the Polish Underground, of how the Poles found ways to falsify documents and reshape their identities. ![]() Will she sleep with him in order to save lives? There’s actually more time spent on Antonina sitting around her kitchen, and talking about the refugees predicaments – more so that letting us actually know the Jews up close and personal ourselves. Yet Antonina has to entertain his flirtations so she can have favors in exchange. The Nazi, played by Daniel Bruhl of “Inglorious Basterds” fame, is one of those creepy lechers. That’s an excuse, for it seems to me they just wanted to shoot something.Ī lot of the film otherwise feels sketched in. There’s one sequence of remarkable evil that I wasn’t aware of, that following the new occupation of Warsaw, the Nazis decided to shoot loose animals because they didn’t feel they would survive winter. The husband would join the resistance, the wife would care for the refugees and one of their former zookeepers becomes a Nazi. The Zookeeper’s Wife has the kind of enticing footnote story of Holocaust survival that I’m usually drawn to: During the second world war in Warsaw, Poland, Jan Zabinski and his wife Antonina (Jessica Chastain), Polish husband and wife zookeepers, hid Jewish refugees in their facilities following the German raid of Poland. I kept wanting to justify its respectability, but I just couldn’t. ![]()
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This bug is annoying me a very long time. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s very reminiscent of Far Cry 3’s drug related story moments, morphing the environments around Lara while at the same time making her see some really wild things. The story is based off of Baba Yaga, an ancient folklore from Russia about a nasty witch, but instead of going down the rabbit hole of supernatural elements, the story is a little more grounded in reality, with the explanation of the old woman’s powers being hallucinogenic pollen. For a game that touts puzzles being an integral part of the experience, a couple extra wouldn’t hurt.įortunately, what really makes this package enjoyable are the trippy drug sequences. It took us under five minutes to complete it on the first attempt, and it was lacking a satisfying conclusion that many of the temples had prior. Not only is there only one to be found, but it’s not all that compelling or complex. Unfortunately, as much as the puzzles were what made Rise of the Tomb Raider shine, they’re somewhat lacking in Baba Yaga. There is gunfire to be had here and there, mainly near the end, but this is primarily skewed towards the other side of the spectrum. This is roughly an hour long campaign that mainly focuses on traversal, while solving a puzzle or two throughout. While the initial price point is much lower than we’ve come to expect from downloadable content (at least in 2016), it’s reflected in what we get, although not necessarily on the quality of the experience. Because of this, players may be a bit disappointed with what Baba Yaga has to offer. Right off the bat it should be noted that the Baba Yaga content is surprisingly short, especially considering the strong length the vanilla game represents. ![]() Once again we are tasked with overseeing Lara’s journeys into the cold, mountainous terrain as she is faced with seemingly supernatural elements while she protects a young woman and her grandfather from a mysterious witch. It’s a different approach to how the side stories were told, leaving players wanting far more than what’s actually here. ![]() It’s not tied directly into the main plot, but instead is its own side quest that can be found a couple of hours into Lara’s adventures, extending the already impressive lengthy campaign ever so slightly. While there were many that expected this would be simply additional maps to the game’s arcade-oriented tomb raiding mode, the Redwood City-based studio has instead elected to create story-based content that’s incorporated straight into the Siberian wilderness. Despite the conclusion to Rise of the Tomb Raider being more than satisfactory, Crystal Dynamics wasn’t completely ready to shut development on content creation as they’ve released the first of a few pieces of downloadable content that digs deeper into rather nasty lore spread throughout Siberia and Russia as a whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Love Manipulation - User can sense and manipulate all the aspects of love, of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling love, even manifesting the emotional energy to a physical level.Some users may be able to draw sustenance from the will-power or even slow or stop aging. by willpower of oneself and others, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. 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The first trailer for Sofia Carson‘s upcoming movie A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits has been released. Because of this, the user can use people to get what they so desire. No one, no matter how different their beauty standards may seem, cannot deny this person's beauty as truly unfathomable as this person possesses infinite beauty. ![]() ![]() Studies focus on producing and distributing content across all major media platforms, including on-location video and audio recordings. Available to students residing on the other Hawaiian islands, the program targets students completing the first two years of coursework in a media/art program at a UH system community college. UH West O'ahu offers its online bachelor of arts in creative media with a concentration in general creative media as a degree-completion program. With its main campus in Las Cruces, NMSU is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. SAT and ACT test scores are not required for regular admission, but are required for early admission. Students completing the GED or HiSET may also be considered for admission. Qualifications for admission include graduation from any state high school or academy in the U.S. Students also take introduction to information technology followed by electives. Graduates gain communications, project management, and computer proficiencies transferrable to other media-related jobs.Īfter general education classes, core studies cover desktop publishing, web design, principles of design, and 2D animation. They also explore interdisciplinary skills in editing, directing, acting, and writing. Students in this 60-credit program learn to work with audio and video equipment. NMSU's associate of applied science in creative media degree prepares students for entry-level work in the media industry. They develop crucial collaboration skills required in the majority of jobs in animation. ![]() Improve Collaboration Skills Throughout an undergraduate or graduate animation program, enrollees work closely with their peers and instructors. Hone Individual Abilities A well-designed animation program gives students plenty of opportunities to explore and improve their individual abilities through coursework and hands-on training. Increase Credibility An animation degree presents the holder as a serious and disciplined professional who possesses the knowledge and training required to carry out the artistic and creative requirements of different types of jobs in the field. Develop Professional Network Most animation programs include internship and mentoring opportunities that give enrollees the chance to develop connections in the industry, which often become professional recommendations after graduation. Employers often expect animation applicants to submit a portfolio. 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You can also purchase the “virtual box set” of our Overview tracks for the entire Back to the Future trilogy for the special price of $4.99 for the whole set. You can also purchase our Overview track for the original Back to the Future and the oh-so-timely Back to the Future Part II. At the beginning of the audio track, we’ll provide you with the instructions on how to sync our commentary track up with your DVD or stream of the film, and once you hit play, it will be like you are watching the film with your friends from Overthinking It right in your own living room. To get in on the fun, just purchase our commentary track in our online store for only $1.99. In this edition, Pete Fenzel, Richard Rosenbaum, and Ryan Sheely discuss the many forms of Western film that appear in this movie, the self-actualization of Doc Brown, and how the series as a whole helps us to understand time travel as a creative act. Back to the Future Part III is a fitting and triumphant conclusion to the trilogy, and our commentary track for the film both examines the film on its own, but also ties together the larger discussions that we’ve been having throughout the course of all three commentary tracks. However, at the last second, Flea showed up in a pickup truck, and called us chickens for not wanting to record Overviews for the whole trilogy, and we’re sure glad he did. In a moment of doubt, we created contingency plans for recording just one or two episodes, in the event that we ran out of time. ![]() However, we were a bit daunted by the prospects of recording commentary tracks for all three films in as many weeks. Here at Overthinking It, we’ve never done any of those things, but we’ve done something nearly as difficult: we recorded Overview commentary tracks for all three Back to the Future films in the span of one month!Īt the beginning of this month, we knew we wanted to record commentary tracks for at least some of the Back to the Future films in honor of the OctoMarty McFly Day milestone. In the course of their adventures, they harness the power of lightning, prevent the darkest possible version of Hill Valley from existing, and use a hijacked train to propel the DeLorean up to 88 Miles Per Hour. Over the course of the three Back to the Future movies, Marty McFly and Doc Brown accomplish a great number of nearly impossible tasks in their travels through time. ![]() ![]() ![]() A dual French national living in Jerusalem, Hammouri previously served a seven-year sentence for security offenses, and Israel considers him a PFLP operative, allegations he denies. The phone of the third named hacking victim, Hammouri, was apparently compromised in April, the researchers said. “As human rights defenders living under occupation, we expect it was the (Israeli) occupation,” Halaika said when asked who he believed was behind the hack. Al-Haq engages in sensitive communications with the International Criminal Court, among others, involving alleged human rights abuses. 16 by Halaika, whose phone was determined to have been hacked in July 2020. ![]() “If the Israeli government refuses to take action then this should have consequences in terms of the regulation of trade with Israel,” he said via email.Īl-Maskati, the researcher who discovered the hacks, said he was first alerted on Oct. The executive director of Frontline Defenders, Andrew Anderson, said the NSO Group cannot be trusted to ensure its spyware is not used illegally by its customers and says Israel should face international reproach if it does not bring the company to heel. “We will continue our work, continue providing services.” “Of course we are not going to close our organizations,” Francis said. Addameer director Sahar Francis called for an international investigation. “This actually complicates the relationship of the government with NSO,” said Altshuler, if the government is indeed both a client and regulator in a relationship conducted under secrecy.Īboudi, along with representatives from Al-Haq and Addameer, held a press conference in the occupied West Bank on Monday in which they condemned the hacks as an attack on civil society. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a legal expert at the Israel Democracy Institute, called the findings “really disturbing,” especially if it is proven that Israel’s security agencies, who are largely exempt from the country’s privacy laws, have been using NSO Group’s commercial spyware. Aboudi served a 12-month sentence last year after being convicted of charges of involvement in the PFLP but denies ever belonging to the group. Israel and Western governments consider the PFLP a terror group. Israel says the groups are linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist political faction with an armed wing that has killed Israelis. The researchers’ examination of Aboudi’s phone determined it was infected by Pegasus in February.Īboudi accused Israel of “sticking the terrorist logo” on the groups after failing to persuade European governments and others to cut off financial support. ![]() He was especially concerned about eavesdroppers being privy to his communications with foreign diplomats. NSO Group has also said it doesn’t target U.S. That led them to question claims by NSO Group that exported versions of Pegasus cannot be used to hack Israeli phone numbers. But four of the six hacked iPhones exclusively used SIM cards issued by Israeli telecom companies with Israeli +972 area code numbers, said the Citizen Lab and Amnesty researchers. It’s not known precisely when or how the phones were violated, the security researchers said. ![]() Israel’s Defense Ministry approves the export of spyware produced by NSO Group and other private Israeli companies that recruit from the country’s top cyber-capable military units. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss security matters. The statement had no other details, and officials declined requests for further comment. technology.Īsked about the allegations its software was used against the Palestinian activists, NSO Group said in a statement that it does not identify its customers for contractual and national security reasons, is not privy to whom they hack and sells only to government agencies for use against “serious crime and terror.”Īn Israeli defense official said in a brief statement that the designation of the six organizations was based on solid evidence and that any claim it is related to the use of NSO software is unfounded. Last week, the Biden administration blacklisted the NSO Group and a lesser-known Israeli competitor, Candiru, barring them from U.S. The forensic findings, independently confirmed by security researchers from Amnesty International and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab in a joint technical report, come as NSO Group faces growing condemnation over the abuse of its spyware and Israel takes heat for lax oversight of its digital surveillance industry. The others do not, and wish to remain anonymous, Frontline Defenders says. Three of the hacked Palestinians work for the civil society groups. Israel has provided little evidence publicly to support the terrorism designation, which the Palestinian groups say aims to dry up their funding and muzzle opposition to Israeli military rule. ![]() |
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