Word: madwoman
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...foot five Madea is a person of extremes: demanding yet forgiving, playful yet violent. But whether pulling a gun on her relatives at a houseparty or conveying deep hurt when her pothead brother (also played by Perry) ridicules her weight, Madea is a credible character—a madwoman played to a tee. Though it is difficult to identify with Madea, Perry knows her in and out; this is what makes her convincing.The assistant district attorneys, whose potentially-gripping stories dominate most of the movie, are just not as persuasive as Madea and her family. Ion Overman struggles through most...
Oddly enough, it doesn't. The book Dawsey has found is Charles Lamb's Selected Essays of Elia. The Essays of Elia also crops up in 84, Charing Cross Road, but Guernsey takes it in a different direction: here we learn that Lamb's sister Mary was a madwoman who stabbed their mother to death. This kind of morbid detail comes up a lot in Guernsey, and it cuts the treacle nicely. The authors have a bracing interest in suffering and death that knocks the cuteness right out of the book. When Dawsey remarks on how cheerful Juliet...
...Middleton is our other Shakespeare, why don't you know more about him? Because he's the madwoman in the attic - the secret we don't want our kids to discover. Would your parents want you to marry someone who describes getting pregnant as being "poisoned with child"? In Shakespeare's 39 plays there are 40 certified virgins. Middleton sees the allure of innocence ("Virginity is paradise, locked up"), and his plays include some magnificent maidens. But in his world most men want a sexually experienced woman. "Desire," Middleton insisted, "is of both genders": women can be as lascivious...
...extreme moments, as if to share a sly intimacy with the audience. Does she want viewers to see the full humanity of the troubled Shin-ae? Or is she telling us not to probe too deeply for logical explanations in a character that is essentially one more exotic movie madwoman...
...made a documentary, Viva Zapatero!. (The title exalts "And down with Berlusconi!") In this brisk blast of agitprop, Guzzanti, a handsome, passionate defender of her right to say what she wants, summarizes her case, quotes from attacks on her ("Madwoman"; "Tale Your Money and Shut Up") in Berlusconi-owned newspapers and ambushes politicians from Center-Left and Center-Right, who either supported Berlusconi or wouldn?t fight him. (Her father, one of her victims reminds her, is a Center-Right official. She replies, "I?m a grownup. I don?t have to ask permission...