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| | Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "Dragonfly" |
 | | Miller" to "The Rules of the Game." I'm talking about movies like "The Sixth Sense" and the new "Dragonfly" (both of which have their genesis in the life-after-death weeper "Ghost") that are nothing but pure science-fiction hokum enrobed in facile, dial-1-800, Marianne Williamson-style spirituality. |
 | | The key to "Dragonfly" is -- I kid you not -- a tiny cluster of freckles in the shape of a dragonfly, a small wonder of a natural phenomenon situated on a woman's upper back, so when the camera lingers on this detail for, oh, some 30 seconds, be sure to pay attention. |
 | | Worse yet, there's something distasteful about the way "Dragonfly," like those dishonest mediums who took advantage of grieving loved ones during the spiritualist craze of the early 20th century, suggests that there's always hope to open that channel between the dead and the living, if only we'll give ourselves over to powers greater than ourselves. |
| www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/02/22/dragonfly (1208 words) |
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