Word: lust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...observing a "Rich Supply of Homoeroticism" in The Lord of the Rings, Cloud shows that he projects homosexual lust onto any friendship between members of the same sex. It's a pity he apparently has no concept of intimate friendship without a sexual aspect. Like too many people these days, he sees the world through a prism that puts the focus on sexuality. Joe Smongeskishrewsbury, Massachusetts...
...observing a "Rich supply of homoeroticism" in The Lord of the Rings, Cloud shows that he projects homosexual lust onto any friendship between members of the same sex. It's a pity he apparently has no concept of intimate friendship without a sexual aspect. Like too many people these days, he sees the world through a prism that puts the focus on sexuality...
...more than a comedy that also happened to feature the screams and flashing lights expected of psychological dramas. If you missed the embrace that Jackie and Jon shared at a key point in the play, you missed a moment that simultaneously conveyed feelings of fear, inadequacy, love, lust, and attachment—even insanity. While “The Art Room” struggled to find an identity between comedy and drama, the actors expertly realized their characters’ range of emotion...
...final judgment. All his actions replay on a giant screen. One image shows a woman walking by. The man is lurking behind a wall. “Ummm nice!” he says. “But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart,” states the Biblical caption beneath the picture. (So that’s what that was.) The next page presents various pictures of the man committing a variety of labeled sins—“theft?...
...Lust, Caution” is a film noir that’s too small for its britches: it may be cloaked in the finest material, but it is also drowning beneath the folds. While audiences will be captivated by the film’s languid, shadowy images and tortured characters, the overall effect is diluted by excessive length (158 minutes) and lack of development. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, known for “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” adapts Chinese author Eileen Chang’s eponymous short story with...