Word: anguishes
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...Frenchman (Georges Siatidis), wants to do something and disobeys orders and moves in. His superior (Simon Callow) prefers to play chess and dally with his mistress at headquarters. Meanwhile, a TV journalist (Katrin Cartlidge) hustles out to the trench and starts broadcasting live reports to the world about the anguish she finds there. Naturally, many of her competitors join...
Zeal may be a quality some viewers will need in order to enjoy Bedroom. Once the lovers disappear, it settles into a film of silent accusations and deflected anguish. But that watchful waiting has a curiously instructive, ultimately hypnotic effect; this, one thinks, is really the way middle-class America hides its hurts. And those silences render more powerful the explosive confrontation between the grieving parents, in which a lifetime's evasions are blown away. They also make the movie's violent conclusion all the more startling, yet utterly right...
...such a war. So was World War II. Fifty years is a long interval, and it shows. The habits of waging such a war have atrophied. The language we have mobilized to wage this war of necessity is the language of wars of choice, heavily freighted with moral anguish, obsessively concerned with proving how delicate and discriminating, how tolerant and sensitive we Americans...
...week's survivors, men still in torn, dirty clothes stand alone or in small groups, staring dazedly at the ground or weeping quietly. Speaking on the hotel's single phone, a woman is rocking back and forth, barely able to utter more than a few words between sobs of anguish...
...group quickly discovered Bond. With my not-so-great spatial orientation skills, I can successfully maneuver my character into a corner on each maze-like level. Though I am frantically pushing all the little buttons, I manage to keep him on his knees in a prostrate state of anguish, writhing like an epileptic chicken, while those more skilled than I laugh because the constantly moving screen really does give me a headache. Bastards...