Word: lusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear all at once the chorus of insects, an enemy's approaching footsteps on the green carpet and Chris' heartbeat on night patrol. The film does not glamourize or trivialize death with grotesque special effects. But it jolts the viewer alive to the sensuousness of danger, fear and war lust. All senses must be alert when your life is at stake, and Oliver Stone is an artist-showman who can make movies seem a matter of life and death...
...easily. Human beings, for the most part, are not idealogues. What they generally want is to be able to enjoy family, comfort, safety and good health. Though it would be comforting to explain the departure of the 50 Soviets by suggesting that their Soviet upbringing didn't foster the lust for freedom possessed by native-born Americans, the truth is more troubling. For vast numbers of people the government is a trivial, background feature in the daily struggle to attain happiness and security...
History, wrote Gibbon, is little more than a "register of crimes, sorrows and misfortunes." It is, equally often, a study in black ironies or the fatal mechanisms of tragedy. Sometimes history is even a cautionary tale, an Aesopian fable on the folly of blindness or greed or lust. But history is rarely a fairy tale, a narrative that instructs as well as inspires. Still less often is it a morality play, in which the forces of corruption and redemption, of extravagance and modesty collide in perfect symmetry...
...African officials believe their country's race problems will disappear if a free press is unable to report them, they are only confusing the messenger with the message -- and may be underestimating their own people. As the Boston Globe observed last week, "Despots throughout history have found that the lust for freedom dies hard...
Last year most of these same folks perpetrated Re-Animator, a dizzy, affecting parable of a grad student's revenge. The student's plagiarizing professor is beheaded (but not exactly killed), and the woman they both lust for can be revived from death only by becoming a zombie. From Beyond eschews such metaphysical satire for some fine gore effects and a hypersonic tone that raises horror to farce. No masterpiece here, just a bloody good entertainment. It's criticproof...