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Eyes Wide Shut.('The Life Before Her Eyes')(Movie review)(Brief article)
Byline: --GRAHAM FULLER
The cataclysm that sunders best friends Diana ( Evan Rachel Wood ) and Maureen ( Eva Amurri ) in The Life Before Her Eyes is a Columbine-like massacre at their high school. But director Vadim Perelman's beautifully etched adaptation of Laura Kasischke's novel is less a study of trauma than a haunting meditation on the choices young women make and how those choices determine their future happiness.
We witness Diana not only at 17, when she is a smirking bad girl with a taste for pot and sex--she describes devout Maureen and herself as "the virgin and the whore"--but also when she's a 32-year-old art-history teacher ( Uma Thurman ). Sad …
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