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...CNN.com: Horror in Paradise...
While speaking to a peace rally at San Francisco State University last May, Wahed said he faced taunts that “Hitler did not finish the job.” Wahed said that to his horror, “the police stood there as frozen as an Egyptian policeman” while protesters physically attacked Jewish students present...
...course, these images of destruction and horror are particular striking in light of the events of September 11th. In fact, the MFA notes as much in a pop-up message on their webpage. The message in the box reads, "Art can play a significant role in our lives even...
...this valuation of the visual over the literary is more than just an aesthetic philosophy, but rather also reflects Ristelhueber's philosophy of history. Ristelheuber seems to have a radically descriptive and almost impartial outlook on the horror that characterizes human conflict. That is not to say that Ristelhueber in any condones or looks favorably upon the disturbing images in her photographs--it is perhaps quite the contrary--but that she looks upon human conflict as inevitablethat history rolls forward...
This darkly seductive, flawlessly acted piece is worlds removed from most horror films. Here monsters have their grandeur, heroes their gravity. And when they collide, a dance of death ensues between two souls doomed to understand each other. The brilliant creepiness of the novels and the films derives from their daring to walk into the haunted house of madness, and live there. You may be able to shake off the scares and the gore of Red Dragon, but the sorrow in its unquiet heart will follow you home. --By Richard Corliss