Word: paranoidly
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...Never mind the tizzy of soul searching it has provoked among party officials. (Why do churchgoers hate us? Is Howard Dean too godless to head the Democratic National Committee?) You can't even have a beer with a rank-and-file liberal these days without the conversation degenerating into paranoid fantasies about how evangelical leaders are at this very minute hunkered down in Bush überadviser Karl Rove's office plotting to institute an Old Testament theocracy overseen by Attorney General Jerry Falwell...
...that catalyzes his downfall. Despite his irritating tendency to say the wrong thing to just about everyone, there are elements of appealing humanity in Troy. There is something gripping about his irate desperation and something frightening about the ease with which Troy evolves from confident and optimistic bartender to paranoid resentful tyrant. The filmmakers have been handed a fascinating fable and they make good use of their material. They choose scenes that effectively highlight the quicksilver personality of Troy; moreover, they use just the right dose of other characters’ appearances to temper Troy’s intensity...
...elements of appealing humanity in Troy. While cringing at his painful blindness to reality, the viewer wants to smack some sense into him. Yet there is something gripping about his irate desperation and something frightening about the ease with which Troy evolves from confident and optimistic bartender to paranoid resentful tyrant...
...loners (like a suicidal psychic girl in Korea's The Uninvited), broken families (a traumatized single mother and her daughter in Nakata's Dark Water)?and the disheveled, raven-haired girl ghosts that have come to symbolize Asian horror. Settings are as alienating as the characters are alienated: cramped, paranoid visuals draw out the spooky possibilities of creaky old buildings and antiseptic new ones. In short, these are movies tailor-made for societies hurtling into an uncertain future, trailing the baggage of a traditional past. South Korea's most original offering?A Tale of Two Sisters by director...
...Forgotten has the makings of an intelligent paranoid thriller, but I found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope...