Word: psychopathic
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...contrast between the chuckly narration and the horrific scenes it plays over is brilliantly dislocating. So is the way the film slowly, gently reveals its true colors, as a tale not of amusing, forgivable youthful high jinks but of the making of a psychopath...
...street not far from the cathedral. The Basque terrorist group ETA (don't ask me what it stands for--I'm still a foreigner here) claimed responsibility for the assassination. While terrorism is, unfortunately, not unknown in the U.S., we are still accustomed to pinning it on a psychopath or a small group of fanatics. The idea of a terrorist group established enough to openly admit to the crime is chilling and strange...
They are redundant steelworkers in Sheffield, England, desperate to get off the dole and redeem their ever mounting debts. One night their leader, Gaz (Robert Carlyle, the memorable psychopath Begbie from Trainspotting), happens upon a club where male strippers are playing to a packed and howling house of local lasses, and a cockamamie idea is born. He and his mates could do that--it's semiskilled labor at best--split the obviously splendid take and at least ameliorate their troubles...
...abduct the general, there is a certain loopy plausibility to the premise. And since their leader, Korshunov, is played by Gary Oldman, an actor who can go from purring self-pity to coldly homicidal rage in about 10 frames of film, these terrorists are truly terrifying--especially when the psychopath in chief has a gun to the head of the First Lady (Wendy Crewson) or the First Child (Liesel Matthews...
...Young Poisoner's Handbook" is the true story of a young 14-year-old psychopath who becomes obsessed with different types of poisons and uses them on his family, classmates and co-workers. Graham Young (Hugh O'Conor) is obsessed with chemistry and studies it with a passion. One day he learns all about Isaac Newton's lifelong obsession with antimony, a highly poisonous material, which when heated appears to transform itself into a diamond of breathtaking beauty. However, when Graham attempts to recreate the experiment it blows up in his face. And thus begins the life of the Poisoner...