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FILM REVIEW

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Casablanca

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The Lion King

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continued from page 41 You would think this would be a character study, but it’s really more of a mood piece. The kids look alike because Oscar insisted that they never cut their long, black hair. One brother, Narayana, stands out because, after seeing The Dark Knight, he was inspired to break out of the apartment and explore the city block where he had lived all his life. But even when they work up the courage to defy their paranoid, authoritarian father and venture out into the world, they still stick together. The prevailing mood of the movie is fear—of the unknown, of other people outside their little tribe, and of what will happen if they never break out. It is a toxic, corrosive fear that touches on the larger human phenomenon of tribalism. It’s also

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clear that the kids’ worldview is almost completely shaped by movies, and as a result, they have a twisted view of reality. But it also suggests that maybe this strange family is only an extreme case of an artificial place where we all find ourselves in this media-saturated world. The Wolfpack is thought-provoking and sometimes touching, but there is a nagging sense that Moselle didn’t dig deep enough into the abusive situation. But then again, the Angulos are so tight and so cloistered, maybe no one would ever be able to venture deeper into their world, or understand what they saw there. The Wolfpack Thursday, Sept. 17th, 7 p.m. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

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