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While the minuscule monsters have traditionally attacked only people who stepped on their turf, they've recently brought their mayhem indoors as well. Says Marion Bernhardt, 78, of West Palm Beach, Florida, who last year survived an ant assault in a hospital bed: "I was stung all up and down my legs, and I had welts all over them and on my side. They burned for days. I never had such an experience in all my life." She was lucky. At least 50 people have died in recent years from allergic reactions to fire-ant stings...
Much else gets lost in the mayhem. Valdina has a talent for witty, understated dialogue. A series of scenes portraying Caleb and Angela thoughout the day in the office is subtly humorous, and gives the actors a chance to be human; for once, they aren't running around screaming. The same may be said for a scene in which Angela and her boss, Vanessa (Holly Kretschmer) sit at a lunch counter discussing the various attributes of okra vs. eggplant, under the adoring eye of their busboy, Javier (Spyros Poulios), who likes "both okra and eggplant." These brief, intelligent scenes make...
...mayhem begins in 1958, unfolding through the eyes and deeds of three men in their early 40s who have not yet learned that they are out-and-out psychopaths. Pete Bondurant is a former Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who now works for Howard Hughes; Pete's duties include overseeing the staffing of Hush-Hush, a scandal rag Hughes has bought for titillation and political smears, plus procuring drugs for and keeping process servers away from his billionaire boss. One day Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa, who is being hounded by the Senate's McClellan committee and chief counsel Robert Kennedy...
Violence is on Wonder's mind--murder and mayhem, past and present, stateside and overseas. The swirling, soulful My Love Is with You ends with the chant "Ban the handgun." The anthemic yet prayerful title track, Conversation Peace, rages against ethnic cleansing, slavery and the Holocaust. "There's no chance of world salvation," sings Wonder, "'less the conversation's peace." And even the poppy, sing-along chorus of Take the Time Out--"Take the time out to love someone/ Reach your arms out and hug someone"--belies the fact that the verses are about lost souls caught...
...forth between the boy's story and his lawyer's arguments against capital punishment ("Since the days of Cain, no punishment has proven to be an adequate deterrent for murder."), the film culminates in Jacek's execution. The pandemonium surrounding the event belies the ideal of dispassionate justice. The mayhem in the execution room mirrors Jacek's struggle with his stubborn victim. It is not execution, but revenge, and the law denounces revenge...