Word: luridly
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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...
...home full justice in A View of Toledo (ca. 1597-1599). Bathed in a stormy light that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere, the city with its castles, mighty walls and Gothic church spire looms above a lurid green landscape and a dark, rushing river. The silvery buildings are emphasized by dark halos; an unseen sun makes the clouds glow. No religious drama is going on anywhere: the only figures are manikins fishing, swimming, washing clothes. Yet this may be the most spiritual work he ever produced - a fitting symbol for a painter devoted to illuminating life's ethereal...
...Most Hong Kong thrushes are sweet vixens. Mui was different. Her large eyes, beaky nose and small, lurid gash of a mouth gave rise to another sobriquet: the Ugly Queen of Pop. That's a harsh way of saying that Mui was a throwback to chanteuse Bai Guang and other Shanghai "sour beauties" of the pre-Mao era. The sour beauty sang of love as a burden that made the sufferer superior. Mui was that survivor: battered but proud...
Notoriety still paid in 2003, to an extent. Rapper 50 Cent parlayed a tabloid-lurid story--he has been shot, he claims, nine times--into the year's top-selling album. And Demi Moore helped her celebrity profile by hooking up with Ashton Kutcher--more, probably, than she helped her summer flick, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. But whom did we actually want to see in a movie...
...political climate. A proper lady with few practical skills, Ada is saved by the arrival of the can-do mountain gal Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger). As Ada passes her Ruby Thewes days struggling to keep her farm from failing and the local bully Teague (Ray Winstone) from pressing his lurid attentions on her, Inman meets all manner of strangers--good witches and bad, a rogue (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a young widow (Natalie Portman). Inman shows how fleeing a war can be an act of love, Ada how staying at home is an act of courage...