Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though this may sound like Graham Greene land, Moore does not often linger over moral debates or digressions. Within a few pages of the novel's opening, Bem has been attacked by would-be assassins, abducted by men who claim to be protecting him and, having made his escape, reduced to the status of a fugitive in rags who fears for his life and does not know where he will be safe. As he descends into the underworld, haunted by undercover agents and herded from truck to shadowy truck, the highest cleric in the land finds himself in touch...
...displays the narrative verve and generosity that won critical praise for her early works and then popular, best-selling acclaim for A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) and The Finishing School (1985). Her meticulously controlled fiction creates the illusion of life unpredictably unfolding and of characters trying to make moral sense out of experiences that overwhelm thought...
...episode had some inept action sequences and could have used more fanciful detail. But there are nice lyrical touches, and the show may have hit on something. Beneath the city streets, away from the hassles and hazards of everyday urban life, lies a hidden world of refuge, romance and moral order. The perfect yuppie fantasy...
Unlike many crime films, Family Business has a moral code, for the family never uses weapons in its burglaries. Tranquilizer guns, but not weapons. And when the father finally teams up with "The Organization" towards the end of the film, Costa-Gavras makes this the sign of the family's break...
...moral question in the film is annoying and out of place. But it is hardly surprising, coming from a director known for political activism. Z, a controversial film about a political revolution in Greece, vaulted Costa-Gavras to fame in 1969. And Missing, the story of an American who "disappears" in the political turmoil of a Central American dictatorship, re-established the director as a major force in political filmmaking...