Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into relics. Blind Cahill literally feels his way to the truth about his son. Joel's former instructor breaks regulations and takes him for a dangerous spin that conveys the elemental and unnatural sensation of flight. Cahill also discovers that the lost flyer was the leader of a trainee cult known as Alnilam, named after the central star in the constellation Orion, the hunter. Eventually Joel is revealed as an incipient fascist, a "cool-headed demon," an arrogant manipulator of symbols and, reminiscent of the pseudoscientific romanticism of Nazi Germany, a practitioner of "precision mysticism...
...Believers, a movie doing its best to defy description at any length, has some potential in this regard. It posits a Caribbean voodoo cult that offers unlimited worldly power to people willing to sacrifice their young sons in its rituals. And it brings a newly widowed father (Martin Sheen) and his son (Harley Cross) into menacing proximity with the evildoers. A well-made horror film would focus tightly on the son's menaced innocence and force us to share the father's fears as the portents of doom gather about him, his ferocity when at last he must defend...
...book is a critique against the cult of expertise [in the administration] that tells people you can't get involved because these people know more than you do," he says. "But there is no lord-serf mentality, students can get involved...
...Cult of Expertise...
Almost at the End has a way of passing smoothly through the ideological looking glass. What seems to be the cult of personality on one side appears as celebrity on the other. Perhaps even legend...