Advantages: A good idea for reworking "Rear Window"... Disadvantages: ...but it had a poor script and lost a lot of what made the original plot so good
Rear Window (1998) - FILM ONLY REVIEW
Certificate: PG (UK)
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Voyeurism is the act of observing the lives of others, often, though not always, for sexual gratification; it is a process by which the observer gets more satisfaction from viewing others than from experiencing their own lives. There is a little bit of this tendency in all of us, as what is watching a film if not opening up a window on the lives of others, be they real or fictional? It is no surprise, therefore, that the film industry has from time to time chosen voyeurism as the subject of its stories. A widely regarded classic of the theme is Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window", an engrossing and suspenseful examination of what it is like to be a voyeur, first enforced by circumstance and later pursued ...
Collingwood21 13.09.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Rear Window (DVD)
Advantages: Smooth, Well built, Lightweight Disadvantages: Very loud when freewheeling, Difficulty fitting cassette
of a Hoperear hub who gets annoyed by the loudness of it.
Unlike many freehubs, it's also surprisingly easy to service, requiring no tools the freehub just pulls straight off, revealing the ratchet mechanism, which is incredibly simple and easy to service. Fitting the cassette (cogs, for the non-cyclists!) takes a bit of gentle persuasion, however, in the form of a rubber mallet. Removing the cassette is even more difficult. Could do better there, I'm afraid.
In use, the hubs are a dream. Despite riding in mud, through rivers and general neglect of the bike, the hubs have stood up to it all admirably. Let's hear it for British Engineering!
Since I wrote this opinion, I've noticed two things:
1) Shimano XT cassettes seem to fit no problem, unlike cheaper stuff that just gets stuck.
2) Having lost the springs from the freehub ...
Pritch 08.11.2001 (15.02.2002)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hope XC Rear Hub
Advantages: (+) symbolic and dramatic (+) interesting character backgrounds (+) suprisingly good read Disadvantages: (-) frequent play on words (-) extremely depressing at times
BRIEF INTRODUCTION
In The Man with the Golden Arm, Algren tells the story of Frankie-Machine-Majcinek, his wife Sophie (Zosh), his friend Solly-Sparrow-Saltskin, his lover Molly Novotny and his enemy Police Captain Record Head Bednar. There are other characters but these are the major ones throughout.
Frankie is a World War 2 Veteran who is addicted to morphine, chiefly due to a war wound he suffered but also because of guilt after having crippled his wife in a drunk-driving accident. He feels hatred towards Sophie because he feels she 'faked' a pregnancy - the one that led to their marriage.
He feels he can escape the morphine addiction when he spends time with Molly, the girl he is having an affair with. However, the affair only worsens his guilt and leads to further drug use
Louie Fomorowski is Frankie's drug ...
