Word: dantean
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...increasingly difficult to get, Reina convinces Marlon - using sexual seduction powers that make Salome seem like a nun - that they should pay a Medellin travel agency, Paraiso Travel, $3,000 for what could be called the illegal alien package. It's a flight to Panama and then a Dantean journey by bus and foot to the U.S., through squalid hotels and scorching deserts - including nightmarish hours hidden by smugglers in a truckload of suffocating, hollowed-out logs. Paraiso Travel's screenwriters, Franco and Juan Rendon, interviewed a number of real migrants who have made the journey. "I'm fortunate...
...academic abattoir at Quincy and Mass Ave. nonetheless teems with students, pale and wretched beneath the library’s oppressive fluorescence. The overcrowding does wonders for the place’s Dantean ambiance, but it forces us to consider why people are so compelled to return to Lament (I hope this catches...
...stays alive to the humor and the sadness and the ironies of life even in the teeth of the city's everyday assault--bricks (and, once, a canned ham) thrown from rooftops, the festering bitterness of precinct-house feuds, the bizarro underworld of the midnight shift, the agony, both Dantean and Sisyphean, of sifting through the rubble of the World Trade Center that has been moved to Staten Island. Conlon has no ambitions as a whistle-blower or a hero--he's neither a Serpico nor a Supercop--and that keeps Blue Blood free of distortion and full of perspective...
...smartest movies of 2000, in any country; the hauntingly beautiful Behind the Sun (Brazil, 2001) and Argentina's bittersweet, Oscar-nominated Son of the Bride (2001). The leap, however, is most evident in City of God, whose driving samba-and-funk artistry provides a rare glimpse of the Dantean squalor bearing down on Brazil's tourist beaches. Hailed as one of the best Latin American films of the past half-century, it was snubbed by Oscar, many critics complain, because of its violence. Set in Rio's notorious Cidade de Deus favela and narrated by a teen who manages...
...take out A Passage to India, but I know, like Sisyphus, that the struggle is useless. I can't concentrate under the present conditions: heavy, Dantean sighs abound; cell phones go off and everyone reaches into their pockets because they don't know their ringer style; bodies and bags are strewn over the floor in such disarray that you don't know which is which and the image reminds me of spaghetti and meatballs...