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...about crime. And indeed, Campanella directed several episodes of the show. Imitating the visual style of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, Campanella frames some shots with dramatic red curtains and varies shots between warm and cold colors, but he does not use the effect consistently. Campanella shows the violent, bloody corpse in long takes set to emotional music in a way that Martin Scorcese had been doing since “Gangs of New York,” brought to a real level of expertise in “Shutter Island.” In these movies Scorcese achieves...
...play tells the story of Katurian (James R. Morris GSAS ’10), a young writer who is taken into police custody because a string of recent murders emulate the plots of his gruesomely violent children’s stories. When his mentally retarded twin sister, Michal (Isabel Q. Carey ’12), confesses to the murders, Katurian accepts the fact that he will soon be executed, but desperately struggles to ensure his stories are preserved after his death. The play is told, in part, through reenactments of Katurian’s tales, including a darkly autobiographical vignette...
Ultimately, ”The Pillowman” raises a number of darkly philosophical questions about the accountability of the mentally ill in violent crimes, the responsibility artists have for the emotions provoked by their art, and, perhaps most painfully, whether victims of violent abuse are ever capable of healing. Katurian seems to provide an answer to this final uncertainty when he snarls at his sister, “There are no happy endings in real life!” “The Pillowman” does not have a happy ending either—but it is this...
...church, like any other institution, is part of society and the faults and sins of its members reflect society at large. Nowadays, we and our children can easily access pornography with a click of our mouse. Video games very often have violent and explicit content. Priests, like other human beings, live in a world where sex is ubiquitous. It is painful for me to learn of the acts of some priests, but the sins of a few cannot be the reason to abandon the church and forget what Christ has preached. Carlos Barcia, MURCIA, SPAIN...
...attributing to culture what is a political and social phenomenon, Kramer misrepresents the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A willingness to sacrifice oneself is not a desire for martyrdom rooted in Palestinian culture. Rather, as has been shown by scholars of the conflict, Palestinian youth turn to violent means to oppose the dehumanizing effects of the Israeli occupation. In short, Kramer’s remarks are not informed by current scholarship, but are animated by the spirit of early 20th century eugenics...