Word: maligned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Downey's new movie, Pound, the personae are dogs, but the theme is man. Imprisoned, a pack of canines -in human form-are under sentence of death unless an owner comes to claim them. Their warden is a uniformed black woman, neither malign nor forgiving, just carrying out orders. Round and round the dogs pad and yammer, seeking a nonexistent reprieve, like Sartre characters on Gainesburgers...
...reflection" and maintains a constant dialectic that makes his films argument rather than indoctrination. The Passion of Anna will admit no criticism into your experience of it. You must either embrace the Vision as "the reflection of reality," as Bergman intends, or else recoil from it and malign its director...
...critics go about their task in a way hauntingly familiar to an older generation. Their aim is to build a following for themselves. They would do this by sowing doubts and suspicions. They hope then to attract sufficient support to be able to enforce demands on those whom they malign and designate as the enemy, using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association, and so on. And they thrive as people lend them credence...