Word: mistressful
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Hunter Thompson delivered his own surprises. Sent out to cover Humphrey, a wayward whale in the Sacramento River, Thompson instead reported in preposterous detail on an elderly Chinese woman who claimed to be Richard Nixon's former mistress. Thompson devoted a subsequent column to a blistering attack on his "brainless" editor's failure to pay room-service tabs. All good fun, sort of, but other reporters grew angry that Thompson was mugging the Examiner while collecting $1,500 per column...
...Father's "business trip" (as a forced laborer) begins when a political cartoon appears in the party newspaper. The cartoon shows Karl Marx writing at a desk, with a picture of Tito on the wall behind him. Father--known as Mesa in the film--mentions in passing to his mistress that the cartoon is somewhat extreme, a crime for which she later reports...
...easy for Mesa's mistress to have him sent to the labor camp, because the official to whom she reports him happens to have designs on her. He also happens to be Mesa's brother...
...title would suggest, the film is not about the labor camp, but about what happens back home while father is away. The movie centers on the struggle of Mesa's wife and children, and on the conflict between the mistress, the brother-in-law, and the wife over the terms of his release...
...known as "deep focus." The use of deep focus lends a strong sense of realism to the film, portraying simultaneously the characters and their environment. Kusturica also imports some techniques from the genre of film noir, especially the notion of the woman-as-temptress (in this case the mistress), and the practice of photographing her image in mirrors...