Word: luridity
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...Testament retribution (an eye for an eye). But Vol. 2 reduces the casualties and gentles down the mood. You get less kill, more Bill. The first was show, this is tell--anecdotes at 10 paces. Of course, this being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces. (The auteur is a bit of a diva himself: he loves arias, visual and verbal.) So you get a lecture on the toxic properties of the black mamba snake and a disquisition on the psychological duality of Superman...
...real question here is a matter of proportion, the tendency of lurid cultural issues to crowd out the more important stuff. Even Iraq has settled into the dim middle distance. Few images from the war are as startling--as "spontaneous"--as Justin Timberlake's ripping Janet Jackson's bodice. The violence of combat is sanitized into banality by squeamish editors. And there are no compelling images to convey the absence of weapons of mass destruction or how difficult it will be for an American Secretary of State to bring a credible argument for war to the United Nations anytime soon...
...troubled by the intensity of Cartman's lyrics: "It appears you are actually... in love with Christ." Cartman shrugs: "Well, what's the difference? You love Christ, you're in love with Christ - I mean, what the heck is this?" What it is, is a profession of faith more lurid than Gibson could have dreamed, as in the uptempo spiritual, "Body of Christ," with these sensuous lyrics...
Typical of its director’s previous work, however, Twisted is imbued with powerful lurid undertones. Judd’s character is confident in her sexual prowess, but her actions are seen in a much more negative light by the male characters. In a spin on the standard established by films such as American Psycho, it is Twisted’s men, not its women, who are victimized and murdered for their activities. Kaufman toys with the underlying sexual themes in his movies, and Twisted’s suspenseful mood heightens the power of this component...
Typical of its director’s previous work, however, Twisted is imbued with powerful lurid undertones. Judd’s character is confident in her sexual prowess, but her actions are seen in a much more negative light by the male characters. In a spin on the standard established by films such as American Psycho, it is Twisted’s men, not its women, who are victimized and murdered for their activities. Kaufman toys with the underlying sexual themes in his movies, and Twisted’s suspenseful mood heightens the power of this component...