Word: mobbing
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Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
...Then, pictures simply stared back at audiences - looming larger, perhaps, because of the bold new type-C prints being adopted by rising stars like Bill Henson and Tracey Moffatt, but mute and mysterious all the same. Fourteen years on, Henson and Moffatt have been joined by a more raucous mob of artists, whose pictures answer back - or, to cite one of Moffatt's videos, give Lip. "The momentum's been building," Robinson says of the rise of Australian photo media, "and it's becoming more diverse...
Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
Aitken adds that Jews are polarized into either members of a blood-thirsting mob or true, redeemed believers. She also believes women are grossly misrepresented, as devil figures or as supplicants, despite the biblical presence of independent females...
...would have spoken any Latin, he converses with Pontius Pilate fluently in the film. Greek, which was spoken commonly in Jerusalem at the time, is completely absent. Additionally, Gibson misrepresents the ethnic make-up of Jerusalem and greatly heightens the role of the so-called “Jewish mob,” which calls for Jesus’s death. According to Aitken, Gibson also fictionally contextualizes Judas’s story, adding a scene of his harassment by a group of morphing, devil-like Jewish children...