Word: inhumanness
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ONCE THE DOCTOR'S role changes to that of a life-destroyer, Washington State's Physicians Against 119 say, patients will no longer be able to trust doctors to act in their best interest. Euthanasia may start out as a benevolent impulse, but it soon becomes a calculating and inhuman procedure...
...dreaming. Maria, the famous she-robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, mother of a whole brood of automatons down to George Lucas' See Threepio, was not alone: her brothers were the machine men of Dadaism, whose poetic meaning (like hers) was anguish in the face of inhuman technology. No phase of modern art showed such profound doubts about the present, or threw off such febrile dreams about new social orders. The millenarian hope that eventually spawned the totalitarianism of the '30s was felt by artists, architects and designers, and was released as an obsession with social protest...
Finally, they should talk to Rodney King, the Los Angeles motorist who was beaten and shocked by police officers several weeks ago. Ask him if he thinks he would have been treated any differently if the inhuman brutality of that incident wasn't captured on videotape by a homeowner and broadcast around the nation...
...austere thriller with one lingering mystery: Why was it shelved? Did the old husband -- brutal, impotent, self-deluding -- offer the Chinese rulers a disturbing mirror image of themselves? Did Ju Dou's child -- twisted, ruthless, utterly inhuman -- remind the authorities uncomfortably of the '60s Red Guard? Maybe the film was deemed too sexy for Chinese viewers. Though not much flesh is exposed, Ju Dou is a powerful essay on sexual longing, grounded in time-honored dramatic elements: fire, water, pain and lust...
...nastiest nasty, a cold-hearted Ollie North-type named Stuart (played by William Sadler), is completely inhuman. Other bad guys get crazed looks in their eyes as they plan mass bloodshed, but this guy's expression never changes. Without even batting an eye, he kills hundreds of unsuspecting people in particularly brutal ways...