Word: oblivions
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These are minor characters in the current indie film George Washington; they're also among the few adults in a movie about kids. But novice writer-director David Gordon Green doesn't consign them to the oblivion of stereotype. He respects all the creatures in his landscape, gets inside them, X-rays their souls. Then he takes pictures of them--images of a rapturous rural subtlety that recalls Terrence Malick's Badlands from 1973, two years before Green was born. By blending vernacular poetry, a pristine visual sense and a keen awareness of children's urges and fears...
...softened him. A creep shakes him down, and he pokes a chopstick in the guy's eye. Nishi is not post-modern so much as post-mortem. Stick a gun in his face?he has no reaction. Go ahead and shoot, his look says. I'm dead already. Oblivion is the embrace he seeks, for himself and his wife. At the end, they sit on the beach; she thanks him "for everything," and he shoots them both dead...
...jumper in the lane at 13:47 to bring the Lions within five at 36-31, but the Crimson went on a 20-6 run over the next 8:41 to put the game away. Beginning around the 9:00 mark, the Lions hacked their way into oblivion, sending the hot-shooting Crimson to the line repeatedly...
BAHA MEN Dogs are out. Time to join Right Said Fred on the bus to oblivion...
...become increasingly ludicrous. For Houellebecq's narrator, it is only logical that a free-love commune should turn into a Satanic cult capable of appalling masochistic sexual rituals. As for his individual characters, there is of course no action for them to take other than to wander off into oblivion. Bruno checks into a mental institution where he spends the rest of his pathetic days numbing his libido with cocktail medications. Michel, after discovering a way to clone perfectly rational non-egotistical human beings that will in a few years time subsume flawed humanity, simply disappears. Such episodes could, under...