Word: hopelessness
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...Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare. There is the heroism of embattled migrants, some motivated by greed or propped up by drink, others spurred on by a vision of their God's imperative. There is also the tangled, hopeless enmity between the invaders and the natives and between the whites and the blacks who have been made slaves...
...political Shaw bombinates in the wings: "Socialism without compulsory labor and ruthless penalization of idleness and exploitation is nothing but a hopeless confusion of Socialism with Liberalism." And the vegetarian is never far away: "I do not eat flesh, fish or fowl . . . You can be Sancho Panza on any food provided there is enough of it. If you want to be Pythagoras, you have to be more careful...
Often Sartre gets down to the brass tacks of pondering existence: "This evening I miss Argentine, the Sahara, all the parts of the world I don't know, the whole earth--and that's much milder, more resigned and hopeless. It's a 'tender suffering' that resembles happiness. It's like missing a life I might have had when I was 'a thousand Socrates'. But now I'm only one. Or maybe two or three...
Down by two, Bentley nevertheless had its two-three four batters due up, and the freeble runner at scored--by no means a hopeless situation...
...number of Robby Benson movies. If Morgan Hiller is really a perceptive, intelligent New England prep school teenager, why does he fall so quickly in love with a rather stupid Los Angeles gang girl, thereby subjecting himself to violent beatings and possible death? And if he is a hopeless romantic, why does he have such neurotic, pseudo-intellectual conversations and relationships with the people around him? We do not know, and Tuff Turf makes little attempt to tell...