Review Haiku – Kamikaze Girls
Posted on January 22, 2012
Living for cheap frills
Japanese Lolita Girl
Knows about courage
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There’s a great quote in the film, which inspired the haiku above: “Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. You need courage to hold onto happiness.”
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Review Haiku – A History of Violence
Posted on June 27, 2011
A small town hero
His face on the TV screen
Brings back some bad guys
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Review Haiku – Frog Song
Posted on June 1, 2011
With baguettes as swords
A wife fights her husband’s lover
It’s a crumby spat
Wife leaves her hubby
Shares a room with a hooker
They do more than read
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Review Haiku – Junebug
Posted on May 23, 2011
Female art dealer
Visits husband’s family
Tries to score art deal
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Review Haiku – The New World
Posted on February 23, 2011
From across the sea
People come to colonize
Mostly unprepared
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Review Haiku – Starz Inside: Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
Posted on January 12, 2011
Villains as heroes
The American mythos
Worth lots of money
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Review Haiku – Apocalypse and the Beauty Queen
Posted on December 28, 2010
The apocalypse
The world ends when power does
Brutality reigns
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Review Haiku – Memoirs of a Geisha
Posted on December 24, 2010
Girl sold by father
Apprenticed as a geisha
Gains jealous rivals
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Review Haiku – March of the Penguins
Posted on November 5, 2010
Year in and year out
Marching to the breeding grounds
Tuxedos on move
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Review Haiku – The World’s Fastest Indian
Posted on October 20, 2010
The Kiwi speed god
A bad heart, but full of life
Next stop, Bonneville
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