Word: guts
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...special effects, no $20 million stars. Yet documentaries have become part of the summer-movie landscape, thanks to the robust business done by Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 and March of the Penguins last year. Docs can hit audiences where all the best movies do: in the heart, in the gut. Here are five of this summer's essays in political outrage and personal triumph...
...provided a little epic of the African diaspora in France. In his last moments of life, a wounded man from Lagos is tended by a sympathetic paramedic, also African. Flashbacks paint a tragic few years in a few moments: a job lost, a guitar stolen, a knife in the gut, all given meaning by one sweet brief encounter in a parking garage...
...medical bills, we empathize with the desperation that drives men to compromise their values. “Kekexili” evokes such a whirlwind of feelings, it’s difficult to tell where anyone’s loyalties lie at the end. Chuan Lu paints this gut-wrenching ambiguity in swaths across the entirety of his film, driving it home like a stake through the heart. Pity is perhaps the most lasting emotion “Kekexili” imprints upon the viewer: Pity for the women and children who cry as their men depart for the mountains, pity...
...diagnosis will invariably be challenged. We have to be as sure as possible that we aren't missing a true physical (the medical word is "organic") problem. I find the patient's medical history is most likely to turn up the valuable clue, but there's also the "gut check". We all love this mysterious genius that springs up in us once in a while; it's the thing that tells us little Johnnie is getting sick, Mary seems pregnant or Billy is lying. Alternative medicine practitioners claim they use these indescribable diagnostic methods a lot. M.D.'s use "gut...
...deleterious psychological effects of big losses,” he says, were too intense. “Upwards of $6,000 over a few hours is a gut punch that makes everything seem pretty grim...