Word: torments
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...McDonagh's plays, even the most seemingly normal person can turn out to be a sociopath. In his feature debut, In Bruges, the sociopaths turn out to be as normal as the rest of us. The movie offers up carnage, emotional torment and a racist dwarf as it follows two hit men sent to the Belgian city after a job gone bad - but, in the end, it's really just a tale of love and honor. McDonagh describes the film as the most hopeful thing he has ever written. "It's about guilt, redemption, self-sacrifice, and it could have...
...body on his way out the door. For an instant, Felicity lay there numbly. Then, with a curse, she picked herself off the floor and pulled her crumpled peignoir around her aching, unfulfilled flesh. He had done it on purpose, Felicity realized, furious. All he had wanted was to torment...
...tropes: the crouching camera, the chiaroscuro lighting, the mood-deepening use of silences and sound effects. But MGM wasn't a studio that encouraged innovation or eccentricity, and Dassin's seven feature films there are program pictures that hold no, repeat, no hint of his future gift for putting torment and teamwork on film...
...challenging. The play begins with the eponymous storm that causes the shipwreck of Prospero’s old enemies, including his usurping brother Antonio (Richard Snee) and Alonso (David Gullette), the King of Naples. Over the course of the play, Prospero uses the magical powers he has acquired to torment these men and also bring about the marriage of his daughter to Ferdinand (Jason Bowen), the noble son of Alonso. The production at the CMAC is mostly faithful to the original version of the play. The director, Patrick Swanson, lets his actors and the script go to work. The play...
Very few people could have looked upon Chantal Sébire at the end of her life and not understood why the former schoolteacher wished to end it. Left horribly disfigured and in frequent torment from incurable tumors that amassed in her sinuses and skull, Sébire's plea that doctors be allowed to legally terminate her life deeply moved French public opinion. It also prompted considerable reexamination of the nation's laws prohibiting active euthanasia -reflection that has continued in the wake of Sébire's March 19 suicide. But the passionate debate Sébire...