automobile. They gave us the telephone, so that we could communicate with one another over long distances. We can communicate with people who are thousands of miles away without visiting them. They gave us the airplane so that we don’t have to spend several days or even a year to go from place to place. It is a marvel to see what the Caucasian has brought to better this world. We should admire their courage, their determination and their inventiveness. We must emulate them to make in making this world a better group of people, capable of taking care of themselves, rather than being dependent on others. Education, therefore, should be a way for us to catch up to the Caucasian and the Asian in every way. They have given us a lot, but we cannot discount the fact that we started the ball rolling. It is time for us to take back the torch, or at least start playing in the same field.
thoughts and balance of form the work can be considered among the best achievements of Tubin. Arnolds Klotinsh commented: ...I can sense the originality of the composer in the fruitful unity of two polarized germs: from one side an incessant flow of ideas and images that are dramatic and extrinsic to the music, from the other side abundance of such intrinsic elements which may be called specifically musical, the pulsation of gripping and somewhat playful sound forms and inexhaustible inventiveness. The dramatic-substantial saturation of Tubin’s symphonism reveals 1 understandably impulses received from expressionism... All the symphonies of Tubin bear the mark of unique individuality. Juxtaposing his symphonism with that of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss or Dmitri Shostakovitch, we can see that Tubin has avoided a programmatic approach.
h u m o r and its upbeat music and dance, which combined effectively with the realistic settings and believable, down-to-earth characters. It is a "feel-good" movie that communicates a sense that the filmmakers like people and believe that though they are complex and troubled, they are basically good and are capable of change. T h e audience has the identification and satisfaction of cheering for the underdogs. T h e film has a visual inventiveness that employs many poetic touches like the image of Dave and Gaz stranded in a canal on a sinking abandoned car as Gaz's practical son Nathan scampers away on the bank. Meanwhile the multilayered plot, telling little stories about six men and a boy, is organized into a coherent dramatic experi ence by the use of Hero's Journey motifs and devices. By their actions within this framework, these ordinary men are transformed into heroes for the edification and enjoyment of the audience