Word: antideath
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...next day we screen his latest, Shadow Kill. The print has no English subtitles, but Adoor provides a running translation, whispering the laconic dialogue in my ear. "A film like Shadow Kill demands many viewings to be understood," he says. An antideath-penalty parable with the pacing of a Greek tragedy, Shadow Kill is also visually rich, steeped in the verdant colors of the postmonsoon tropics. A veteran village hangman, who lives on the fringes of society and is haunted by the memory of an innocent's execution, is called into duty one last time. He is a killer...
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