11.   The film made local celebrities of several people who were chosen to feature in the film.

12.   Marlene Dietrich played Lola, and the film made her an overnight international star.

13.   And as the film makes abundantly clear, eugenic theory has always been used to justify the most virulent racism in the name of science.

14.   And how many films make you feel that you and the filmmaker are following the course of a dream?

15.   And the film bluntly makes the point that Mary has been hired to ward off an age-discrimination suit, carrying its messages like a cudgel.

16.   And the film makes a point of showing how its wheelchair athletes fight and whoop and holler as any other athletes might.

17.   And what if the film actually makes it into production, with a major star or two attached?

18.   Anderson swears that the film will make sense to newcomers while still rewarding longtime fans.

19.   Another byproduct is that the film has suddenly made male ballet dancers more acceptable.

20.   As a political movie and as a piece of finger-shaking at China, the film makes its points with an admirable subtlety.