Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little crazy. In a long scene that shocks and sickens, they break into an Iraqi home, rape a girl and slaughter her family. An antiwar splatter movie, Redacted ain't subtle. What De Palma is going for, and achieves, is a mix of edgy ennui and hysteria that could be close to the daily lot of soldiers in Iraq...
...long line of such figures - in movie history his antecedents date back to silent pictures - that inform his character. No Country for Old Men, in the violence of the behavior it portrays, in the starkness of the moral conflicts it examines, has the potential to veer toward Tarentino-like hysteria. But the Coens are wintry and dead calm ironists, and their movie is finally less an assault on our sensibilities than a subtle - and possibly permanent - insinuation into our consciousnesses...
...Yale or any other top college) has become a considerable feat. The cause of Harvard’s intellectual decline in this period of hyper-competitiveness is two-pronged: It has to do with the transformation of the college student makeup, as well as the growing college preparatory hysteria...
...Dad” doesn’t have a plot so much as a set of relationships that provide a pretext for mounting hysteria. There’s Madame Rosepettle (Alexandra C. Palma ’08) and her emotionally stunted son Jonathan (Jonah C. Priour ’09), whose excessively tight-knit relationship makes Norman Bates look well-adjusted. Intruding into their claustrophobic domesticity in a hotel in Havana are Rosalie (Sophie C. Kargman ’08), in love with Jonathan, and Commodore Roseabove (S. Adam Goldenberg ’08), in love with Rosepettle. The main...
...increasing hysteria and absurdity of the proceedings is reflected by an increasing breakdown of spaces and reality as the play progresses. Everything becomes more exaggerated, from the humorous to the shocking. The result is a second half that is much stronger than the first. The set (designed by J. Michael Griggs) literally comes apart, starting as a self-contained room and ending up with the side walls completely turned around and the stage open all the way to the miscellaneous props and lights in back. While it is occasionally distracting when a stagehand has to wheel in a spotlight from...