Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds as though all of the elements for a great romance/mystery are here, and for the first 20 minutes of the film, they are. Drenched in period atmosphere (due in no small part to the smoky score by Michael Nyman and Roger Pratt's dark, haunting photography), the film seduces the viewer with Fiennes' bloodshot intensity and Jordan's creative visual ideas. One shot in particular stands out from this first act: the image of a lonely Bendrix mounting a spiral staircase intercut with flashbacks of Sarah seductively leading him up the same stairs to their conjugal hideaway. The changes...
...twilight looms over New Jersey, Shemmer is still hard at work at his desk. It's late, and he won't go home until it's totally dark, but the atmosphere in the office is more casual than during the day. And Shemmer has another reason to be happy. "You see Zamba?" he yells over the walls of his cubicle...
...alone in June 1940. "Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. [I]f we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the light of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say 'This was their finest hour.'" These words, along...
...something very simple in common: we had both done too much. We hadn't known when to stop. We had become addicts. We had gone through dark seasons at the end of which someone--in his case his partners at CAA and in mine my wife--had given us an ultimatum: get clean or get out. And we ended up at this treatment center outside Portland...
Trying this a year ago, I would have been tempting that ominous stirring that I think of as the Shadow--the dark, incipient something in my chest, bad news that used to arrive with sweats, shortness of breath and pressures and pains wisping about the chest bones like evil electricity. A year ago, hauling the firewood might have killed...