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Sizing up ‘Big Brother 2014’
by Diana Palka
Pilot Editor
I spent the first half of my Saturday night in Do
ver Theater watching “Big Brother 2014.”
I spent the second half frantically deleting my
Facebook, researching conspiracies related to
Google and trying to change the political affiliation
on my voter registration to Republican. I took a vow
of purity, promising never to watch CNN or MSNBC
homepage.
Sunday morning, I rose with the sun to repent for
voting for Barack Obama and personally apologized
to my parents for inadvertently being in favor of so
cialism.
Perhaps the most right-wing production of all-
time, Big Brother 2014 made an overt attempt to
bring the threat of totalitarianism to the viewers’ at
tention. And it did.
Maybe it was over my head. Maybe I don’t know
enough about theater to fully appreciate true master
pieces. But how many of the viewers do?
The plot was a bit confusing and at times, and
the dialogue seemed to ramble on incessantly. The
play is about a totalitarian future for the American
people, oppressed by their own government, and the
main dominating character (who, by the way, was
sexually ambiguous) is Russian? Inexplicable. ^
My mind was inundated with the threat of a very
plausible future and was not once offered a solu
tion.
But the ending was pretty cool.
ever again and immediately set FoxNews.com as my
‘“Shutter Island’ is intense, gripping, dark, and unforgettable.” Richard Roeper
by Andrew Veeder
Pilot Sports Editor
Leonardo DiCaprio latest blockbuster hit, “Shut
ter Island,” has been a huge success at the box of
fice, grossing more than $75 million. This psycho
logical thriller, directed by legend Martin Scorsese,
has scared audiences across the country for the last
few weeks.
DiCaprio and his partner, both U.S. Marshalls,
are given the task to investigate the disappearanc
es of a woman gone missing from Shutter Island,
a hospital “for the criminally insane,” according to
the International Movie Database’s website.
As a fan of scary and “edge-of-your-seat” mov
ies, I was more than excited to see this movie. Along
with the excellent writing, twists and turns were ever
present, with an ending that will be talked about like
Bruce Willis’ role in “The Sixth Sense,” At the end
of the movie, however, I hadn’t even realized that I
had bitten my fingernails down to the skin!
This intense movie will have you walking out of
the theater replaying every detail to try and grasp
the complexity. I highly recommend this movie to
thrill-seeking movie goers like myself who enjoy
an intense, well-written suspenseful movie like this
one.
Fans and critics alike are raving about Shutter
Island, some even comparing Scorsese to another
film legend, Alfred Hitchcock.
‘Shutter Island’ maintains a degree of tension
and suspense akin to the best films of Alfred Hitch
cock,” said Moises Chiullan of Hollywood Else
where.
Peter Travers of the Rolling Stones agrees that
the famous director’s latest movies have been mas
terpieces.
“Martin Scorsese making movies as if his life
depends on it, never skimping on ferocity and feel
ing,” Travers wrote. “From ‘Mean Streets’ to ‘The
Departed’, Scorsese’s crime films turn the genre on
its empty head, shaking out the cliches to uncover
the violence of the mind. His latest, ‘Shutter Island,’
sizzles with so much nerve-frying suspense that it’s
hot to the touch.”
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