Announcing a new Meetup for Communicate OK!!

What: OCU Film Series & Discussion: 12

When: November 8, 2009 2:00 PM

Where:
Kerr McGee Auditorium
NW 27th & McKinley
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
405-208-5472

This week's film is Nikita Mikhalkov's "12" (Russia, 2007). "12" is a loose adaptation of “12 Angry Men.” Although modernized, it is nevertheless suffering from a dearth of female characters. Women are in the margins of the picture. At one point, a peripheral (but, as we come to find out, important) character is accused of acting on “jealousy typical of a female.” This is very Russian. Very dramatic and exclusionary. Very Mikhalkov.
A Chechen teenager who keeps terrible memories is accused of murdering his adopted father, a retired Russian officer. “Uncle Volodya,” as the kid calls him, was a friend of the Chechen’s slaughtered family. The case seems simple, but the doubts of one man gradually begin to reveal its inconsistencies; revealing also, in perfect symmetry, human tragedies as modern and immediate as life in Moscow, and as old as the world.

Says Harbour Winn, director of OCU’s Film Institute,“We learn a lot about people when they tell us, in their own words, what they believe,” Winn said. “These stories dive into their deepest thoughts. Through this exploration we also learn a lot about humanity as a whole.”
He said the book will “provide direction and reflection for our cross-cultural study.” It will be available for purchase at the film showings.
The Meinders School of Business is located at N.W. 27th Street and McKinley Avenue.
Each film in the series will begin at 2 p.m. A discussion of the film will follow.

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