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Images of the Week – Starship Troopers + Osama Bin Laden Destroyed

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From Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers. At the end of the film, the army captures the enemy “Brain Bug”. Psychic Carl Jenkins (Neil Patrick Harris) reads the alien’s mind and declares that “it’s afraid!”. Elated, the surrounding troops all cheer.

Photographs taken in front of the White House after the announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed.

The cover of “OK! USA” magazine, following Bin Laden’s death.

Images of the Week – Essential Killing

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From Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing. Near the beginning of the film, three soldiers enter a canyon, and are visually “swallowed” by it. Indeed, much of Essential Killing seems to portray man pitted against his surrounding landscape. Skolimowski’s fascination also seems to be in the digital texture of land, which he experiments with throughout as can be seen in the following stills.