Word: madmen
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...himself been working hard to articulate: How do we keep home, hearth and the middle-class dream from eroding in a world ravaged by crime, drugs and sexual confusion? Profiler's Samantha Waters (Ally Walker) and Millennium's Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) are obsessed not with the individual madmen who each week slice and dice their way into the crime fighters' paths but with keeping the world impenetrably safe for their small children...
...another, people who haven't acted with care in the past are making a large effort to do so now. Many militia members, who are often portrayed in the media as groups of raving, trigger-happy madmen, are very rationally and deliberately avoiding provoking federal agents...
...worth saving? Dour sci-fi satire always has this message: I have seen the future, and it sucks. In this teeming hellhole (lots of clatter and clutter), madmen get the best lines, and a heroic time traveler hardly stands a chance. Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips (notably Vertigo). But at the sight of three giraffes crossing a city bridge, you'll think of a more recent movie. A bad one. In its frantic mix of chaos, carnage and zoo animals, 12 Monkeys is Jumanji...
...world is full of madness and there are Hitlers born every moment. Ben-Shachar needs to recognize that Hitler was freely elected by the Germans, and that the assassination of Rabin was not universally condemned in Israel. The dangers of a free society do not lie solely with the madmen. The dangers of a free society lie within the heart of every citizen...
Israel must address the symptoms of its problems, the causes that let madmen commit violent acts. It must continue in a free and open discussion, so as to quell the irrational worries and fears of the radical right. Without this two-way discussion, the radicals will assume that dialogue is hopeless, and will resort to increasingly drastic acts...