Word: helplessly
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KERIK: When you first get there, and you're looking at people jump from the buildings, there's this helpless feeling. You can't imagine what it's like. [The mayor's] looking at this. And then he just kicks into overdrive from there...
...EMPIRE FALLS Forty-year-old Miles Roby seems to be one of life's born losers. Or are his problems self-made? He manages a decrepit restaurant in the dying Maine burg of Empire Falls--the place he was born and feels helpless to leave--in the wan hope of inheriting it from the widow who owns it. The limited social circles available condemn him to repeated and unpleasant meetings with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere...
Empire Falls Forty-year-old Miles Roby seems to be one of life's born losers. Or are his problems self-made? He manages a decrepit restaurant in the dying Maine burg of Empire Falls - the place he was born and feels helpless to leave - in the wan hope of inheriting it from the widow who owns it. The limited social circles available condemn him to repeated and unpleasant meetings with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere...
...what distinguishes the good guys from the bad? The bad guys take aim at the innocent and the helpless. They do dastardly things like crashing passenger airplanes into buildings full of people, bombing nightclubs full of teenagers and bulldozing entire residential neighborhoods to punish one suspected terrorist...
Though the set is sparse and the scenery simple, the play’s impact is in no way compromised. The only exit for escape, a barred and locked window, is sufficiently emphasized and the stark visual look even enhances the patients’ sense of helpless solitude...