Word: inhumanities
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...that their blend of extreme gore and low comedy in such movies as Raising Arizona and Fargo betrays a contempt for both the genre and their characters. If that was ever true, it's not here. No Country has respect for both Moss' can-do resilience and Chigurh's inhuman relentlessness; the film is fascinated with the expertise and poise under pressure of desperate men whose time is running out. For an hour and 40 mins. the film never lets up, deftly charting the itineraries of Moss, Chigurh and Bell as they lurch toward a triangular showdown...
...just Allen's serpentine poise as the officers quiz him that seems inhuman? You might crack if you were confronted with mounds of damning, if circumstantial, evidence. But Allen parries each thrust or shrugs it off, never taking their bait, meeting their suspicions with his steely stare. You'll feel a chill in the theater, and in your blood, for it's here that Zodiac becomes the good movie the real killer was waiting for. And no one could play him better than Lynch...
Sweden The E.U. report, which alleges the Swedish government was in cahoots with the CIA, could rekindle a 2005 parliamentary investigation that concluded U.S. agents broke Swedish laws in 2001 by subjecting two Egyptians--who were secretly flown from Stockholm to Cairo--to "degrading and inhuman treatment" and by exercising police powers on Swedish soil...
...deal with some of the outstanding cases here.'' Then he called out one name after another of prisoners sentenced to death because they had not confessed their crimes. With each name the man / shouted at the top of his voice: ''Take him out! Immediate execution!'' His voice was an inhuman roar, charged with cruelty. The thought that this person was now in charge of my fate frightened...
McCaffrey presumes, like Augusto Pinochet, to be the keeper of an ideological truth, a vision of pure conservatism that must be pursued at all costs. Emboldened by this presumptive omniscience, the author and Pinochet extend themselves into the arrogant defense of inhuman action to further their personal philosophies. This is the greatest sin of dictators and tyrants, because this simple construct allows for the denial of the rights and humanity of those who stand between the ruler and the achievement of his goal. Whether the despot must murder 3,000 or 11 million to achieve his ends, he will...