Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospects for socialism. It relates Chile's experience to the experience of U.S. workers and is particularly sensitive to problems of racism, sexism, and the exploitation of children. What shines through the horror, the anger and frustration is the Chilean people's determination to resurrect the progress and joy that for a moment was theirs...
...Joy of Sex, Comfort...
...restaurant the couple meet two older ladies, one blind, the other with a significant something in her eye. When Laura helps get the speak out of the other's eye, the blind woman beams with joy: she has second sight, she says, and has seen Laura's little girl, happy and calling to her parents from the other side. At their table Laura faints, in a slow motion crash of food and dishes, and the Baxters plunge into an encounter with spiritualism...
Yasujiro Ouzu's Autumn Afternoon (sometimes titled The Taste of Mackerel) is, quite, simply, a masterpiece. Its muted color and rigorously simple camerawork are consistently a joy to watch, and its emotional insight into post-war Japan is consistently moving. Little more could be said without delving into the intricate simplicity of this wonderful film...
What completes Stone's contribution, what makes his indignation and determination so refreshing, is that they are combined with an iconoclasm directed even at himself. Stone makes no claim to be the suffering crusader; his greatest joy has been the freedom to live true to his faith--a fairly pessimistic view of humanity's worst impulses mixed with a continuing optimism that the social order may hold them in check: To give a little comfort to the oppressed, to write the truth exactly as I saw it, to make no compromises other than those of quality imposed by own inadequacies...