Word: feeling
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...artistic experience. A horror-movie revisionist, Peli follows a less-is-more strategy. He knows that waiting for the big scary jolt does more damage to the nervous system than getting it. The tension builds slowly, as the apprehensive Katie, a student, and the skeptical Micah, a day trader, feel the first emotional tremors. The movie keeps us in its grip because we never leave the couple's haunted property and because all we see is what the camera has recorded when held by Micah or Katie, or when left on at night to monitor their bedroom. That claustrophobia creates...
Peli downplays shock and emphasizes suspense: a shadow creeping across a wall or the ripple of an unseen form under the bedsheets. The gore scenes in splatter movies carry a sadistic punch, but those are outside most moviegoers' experience. What Peli is interested in is dread, a feeling everyone is familiar with. (Will I lose my job? Has she found someone else? Why hasn't our kid come home yet? What's that strange rash?) Movies take that anxiety, crystallize it and, because fiction demands an ending, resolve it. The threat is provided, the fear made flesh, the monster confronted...
...most of the spooky stuff occurs in the bedroom, so - as with The Exorcist back in 1973 - you can steel yourself when the couple goes to sleep. Then too, you may not be scared at all by Paranormal Activity; but as you sit in a movie house, you should feel some fraternal pleasure in noticing that the folks around you are preparing or pretending to be scared. And you should be heartened to realize that - in an age of YouTube, iPod and DVR, where people get their visual media one by one - watching a fictional narrative can still...
Obama said he doesn't "feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize" but that he would travel to Oslo in December to accept it as "a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century." He then rattled off a laundry list of problems. Beyond nuclear weapons and climate change, he said he hoped the prize would serve as a catalyst to grapple with the Middle East, violence, poverty, disease and racism. "Some of the work confronting us will...
...there was widespread disapproval of the choice - so much so that some critics suggested it was high time for Sweden, which manages all the other Nobel prizes, to take back the peace prize. "Obama said today that he was surprised and humble, and even that he did not honestly feel he deserves the prize," Jan Gunnar Furuly, writer for Norway's biggest newspaper Aftenbladet, said in an Email to TIME." I think most Norwegians do not understand the decision to give Obama the prize, and a lot of us are really embarrassed over the fact that the committee could give...