Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the Untouchables,that healthy cynicism about the role of law enforcement officers has given way to pure myth. One crusading knight, in the character of Ness, is out to stop the terrorism of one arch villain. The Chicago gangster Al Capone. It doesn't matter that the legal touches...
After all the Bicentennial's examinations of what the Constitution is, take one last look to discover who lives there. Someone lives there. The Constitution's inventors could not have produced so durable a document without a vision of the person to whom the laws and stipulations were directed. Before...
After 200 years he has changed dramatically, from an 18th century Englishman to a modern African, Asian, Hispanic. But in terms of basic human nature, he remains as he was when the country began. In two centuries his equilibrium has been tested constantly in a history that includes a secession...
But this first half of the film is occasionally confused, uncertain whether to portray Pyle as a comic figure or as a troubled man. His sudden psychopathy is barely convincing, because Pyle's getting his act together would have gotten the drill sergeant off his back. Kubrick seems slightly off...
And so each character, and finally the audience, must cope with not only a desire for peace, but a lust for killing. What matters to Kubrick is the celebration of life, the soldiers' marvelling at their ability to kill or be killed.