Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wonderful potential, and wasted. Serpico has some brutal surface flash and an acetylene performance by Al Pacino in the title role, but its energy is used to dodge all the questions it should have raised and answered. It is not enough to have Serpico reminisce about his childhood, recalling the impression of power and control he got from a couple of guys in blue uniforms, to explain what brought him to the force. It is clearly shown that Serpico is a New York street kid, but this movie asks us not only to accept that a man with that back...
...greater his disengagement, the more cutting the drama. The plays are about stripping away, about revelation; yet they give the feeling of tightness, of mounting frustration and desperation, like a large room in which all the exits systematically and for no apparent reason begin to disappear. They are funny, brutal declensions of pathology, each rooted in a private pain whose source remains a secret...
...were even worse than in the rural villages. The workers there were slaves: they worked long hours, were fed next to nothing, and could be murdered by guards at whim. Of 45,000 people who worked in one plantation between 1917 and 1944, 12,000 died there. Life was brutal in the village, too, but at least it was a familiar harshness...
After 25 years, the opium addicts of the colonial era serve as an example of imperialism's brutal effects and the Chinese people remain mindful of the exploitation that once made it humiliating to be Chinese, if only to guard against future "barbarian" attacks. China has become a proud nation and it will never again offer itself to the West to be carved...
...thirteen deaths; rumors suggest that the toll was much higher. There were hundreds of casualties. Thousands were arrested, and the courts martial began to sentence in closed session. The November 25 coup, instantly recognized by the U.S. government, brought to the forefront of the junta the head of the brutal Military Security Police. The situation seems more threatening for the prisoners--and for all Greeks...