Word: motiveless
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...correctly they live; if they don't they die. Across from him in McCarthy's radically simplified story structure is Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), the patient and taciturn local sheriff. He comes from a long line of lawmen, and is having trouble comprehending the rising tide of motiveless malignity in his jurisdiction. It has something to do with modernity creeping across his dimly drawn county line, though such abstractions are beyond Ed Tom's comprehension. Mostly, he's uneasily contemplating retirement...
...propose a feature on enamel costume jewelry when they did the same feature two years ago. If this movie, which is based on a roman a clef by Lauren Weisberger, who once worked in publishing for real-life sacred monster Anna Wintour, had concentrated fully on Miranda's essentially motiveless malignity, it might have been a great black comedy...
...evils that visit us, none, I guess, is harder to bear than the death of a child. That's the malignity that is really motiveless - or hardest to understand...
...poor, handsome or ugly; we are all very vulnerable, very fragile. Look at Princess Di ..." That sense that even hair-trigger lives, always poised on the edge of self-destructive lunacy, deserve to be sympathetically understood is Amores Perros' redeeming grace. It is what separates its sudden, apparently motiveless episodes of violence from the kind of standard-issue "frivolous entertainment violence" that Inarritu volubly deplores. It also helps explain the film's enigmatic title, which translates roughly as "Love Is Like...