Word: devils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Collins said this media-constructed genetic version of "the Devil made me do it" was irresponsible...
...Italians were apt to. He always seems to have thought of it as a marvelous spectacle that he, as a foreigner, was privileged to behold. "Questo giovane ha una furia del diavolo," remarked Marino, introducing him to one Roman patron -- This young man has the fury of a devil. Furia didn't simply mean rage; it suggested a state of inspiration, of contact with primeval forces that lie below the surface of culture -- the war god's frenzy, the satyr's beastliness, the erotic abandon of the maenad...
Steve is the Kazmanian Devil. Or how about Conan the Kezirian...
Evil has many faces in Nicky Silver's new iron-toothed comedy, but who is Silver's real devil? There are at least four strong candidates by the time the bodies stop piling up. There is the father, Arthur Duncan (Dennis Creaghan) who neglected his son, slept around to spite his wife and molested his daughter, Emma, throughout her childhood, leaving her short and long term memories permanently repressed. Or maybe the mother Grace Duncan (Marian Mercer) who molested her son, Todd (Christopher Collet), driving him to the street where he contracts AIDS. Or for that matter, the family friend...
Whomever Silver intends to be evil, imagery of death and dark forces bear heavily on the set and the plot as well. Emma sees Arthur in a dream as the devil with horns and cloven feet. But Todd emerges the more likely contender, with an irrepressibly destructive influence and inhuman discourse which portray him as some eternal diabolic force. Enigmatically, he informs his family, "I think I died long ago... I'll be here long after you're gone..." while erecting the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex he mysteriously digs up in the back yard of the family mansion...