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And thereby also challenging the current culturally imposed one-side-to-every-story school of corporate journalism, instead basically respecting the unmanipulated intelligence of audiences to make up their own minds.

At the same time, Shosanna (Melanie Laurent), the sole Jewish survivor of a massacre led by sinister SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) at the home of a countryside cow farmer, escapes to Paris where she inexplicably runs a cinema.

Though book to screen adaptations more often than not present problematic situations, with The Time Traveler's Wife a greater dilemma may be adapting to characters in repeated transitions leaping between the past, present and future.

And though Adolf Hitler is no Adam Sandler, his standup mass apeal during the dreaded Nazi period in Germany receives a similar, at times uncomfortably goofy treatment here.

One of the great pleasures of that much maligned notion of 'chick flicks,' is the discovery of the many ways in which women have uniquely coped with social and emotional survival issues during very contrasting cultural periods in time.