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By Thanh Tran
For the Daily
As the days grow chillier and the
specter of midterms looms its ugly
head, many students begin thinking
wistfully of the balmy days of sum-
mer However. for some of us.
returning to Ann Arbor means being
reunited with one of the most crucial
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Customizable financial planning,
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for the honor of talking to anyone
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By Erin Podolsky
Dails Arts Writer
I saw Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet
Hereafter" one fine blustery New York
City day, alone, retreating from the mis-
cellaneous pathetic miseries of my life. I
walked out a different person. Where
once I had been unsure of my path, I was
certain. Perfection was possible. There
was a reason that I was obsessed with fic-
tions that existed only in two dimensions,
only in darkened rooms. And the reason
was this: For the thousands of obsequious
popcorn-plot movies out there, there
existed one that was sublime, that took
everything I ever thought about life,
death and the things in between and
turned them into a brilliant, shining truth.
in the sparsely populated, snowbound
town of Sam Dent, a terrible random act
has taken place. It is not an act of kind-
ness. The town's lone school bus slips on
a patch of ice; the brakes fail, the driver
loses control and it plunges over the road
railing into the ice-watery depths. It is
full of children. The town's children.
Only a handful survive, and the bereaved
parents and spared children are left to
pick up the pieces.,
A lawyer, an intruder, comes to Sam
Dent. He attempts to sign the grieving
families up for a class-action lawsuit. His
motivation is both pit-bull financial gain
WCBN
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The station's multitude of records exists
for a reason. According to Tusciuk, it is
important to keep an open mind about
music from any area. Willingness to try
new tracks and open new doors is neces-
sarv as "open-mindedness is something
our DJ's already come in with," he said.
Music is ovenhelmingly the focus of
WCBN. Howexer the station does run
student-produced news programs and
some syndicated alternative news pro-
grams. Other times. the station will show-
case local bands live on air. Talk on
WCBN is light, as most DJ's who run
their own music programs will introduce
a song and briefly talk about it, occasion-
ally playing an entire album in one sit-
ting. And when there's that much leeway
given to the D, a case of on-the-air
nerves comes infrcquently. What they
talk about is their passion, after all.
Tussins said his enthusiasm about a
track will spill out as he addresses his
audience.
"Just about eerv song I play on the air,
I'm like, -vou got to hear this,"' he said.
But there is also the sense of learning that
he shares with his audience. It's not
unusual for Tussins to play something he
has never heard or come across before.
It's not always good.
"At times. I go. 'I can't believe I just
played that. That sucked,' he said.
Tusciuk believes Ann Arbor is erv
receptive to the alternative style of
WCBN and the unconventional approach
it takes in bringing together music of all
types under one roof
"The people who listen to WCBN lis-
ten to it for a reason: because they want
to," he said. "We want to introduce peo-
ple to new things. For the tradition here is
to be untraditional"
and deeply personal, an attempt to sal-
vage what he can from the loss of his own
child through the recompense of other
parents that he believes he is psychologi-
cal kin to. Whether he is justified in feel-
ing that brotherhood of tragedy or is a
lousy ambulance chaser trading on suf-
fering is as indeterminate in the film as it
is in our own lives.
There are other characters in this
morose, wintry play. A mechanic whose
wife died several years earlier follows his
twin children on the bus in his pickup
truck every morning. It is an image far
more haunting than any big ship sinking
beneath the sea, the mixture of shock,
anguish and loss of control on his face as
he watches in horror as his children.
smiling, waving, are entombed in the
school bus. It is the defining moment of
the film, a stricken look of pure human-
ness that drives right to the core of what
"The Sweet Hereafter" tells us. We have
no control over anything. We watch the
people we love more than life itself
plunge into an abyss where we cannot
help them. Terrible things happen to
innocent people. There is no rhyme or
reason to real life.
And that is why the genius of "The
Sweet Hereafter" is that, at the film's end,
nobody has picked up the pieces save one
girl, a survivor of the ctash. But even she
is scarred beyond repair. forced to start
from scratch and reevaluate her life.
There are no neat little endings wrapped
up with bows. There are no moments of
tension-relieving catharsis beyond the
most subtle of glances. No dead people
come back, no lives return to normal
"Things get covered up," sputters the
lawyer. "People lie" And that, in its way,
is the solemn truth of our own lives.
Things get covered up. People lie. But
what happens when you can't lie any
longer because the truth is so vividly
painful that it can no longer be shoved
aside? Life goes on but it is not ahvays
better, it is not always perfect and it is
never, ever the same. The film's outlook
and content is not as pessimistic as you
would think - it is merely real. The real is
so hard to come by in cinema that when
it makes itself apparent, it cannot be
ignored.
There are times in your life when you
are faced with something so holy and
pure, something impervious to detraction
no matter what others might say, some-
thing that is immediately and irrevocably
grafted onto one of those empty places in
your heart that you experience a moment
of wholeness and true clarity. They're
rare. But when they happen, watch out.
There's a sweet hereafter for me after all.
Others should be so lucky.
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