Word: sadisme
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...Ryder is at times a brutal, violent play. Teddy savages and humiliates his victims mentally and physically with relentless sadism. He is so belligerent that one wonders how he could have been driven to such a state of mind, and Medoff offers no real explanations. Teddy is a war veteran and a "disaffected youth," but somehow this does not adequately explain his attitude toward humanity. All too often he becomes more of an authorial mouthpiece than a coherent character, and when he says at the end that he wishes he could be sorry for what he has done it really...
Caesonia asks not just Scipio, but the entire audience, to empathize with Caligula and to understand the magnitude of his misery--the torture that drives an individual to such sadism. But Martinez delivers the lines in a flip, spiteful tone--not at all imploringly or sensitively--and, as a result, another numeral of the combination to the play's thematic lock fails to click with the audience...
...Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavettes, and especially Carrie Snodgrass are wonderful. But don't take a liking to any characters--eventually you will see them lovingly mauled before your eyes. John Williams has provided another goffily bloated score, and if you go in for DePalma's brand of sadism you'll probably have a good time. Otherwise, this is a bloody mess, and a bloody big disappointment...
...from private hurt and neurosis. But that does not diminish its uncanny relevance." As Steiner elaborated, Kafka "was, in a literal sense, a prophet . . . He saw, to the point of exact detail, the horror gathering. The Trial exhibits the classic model of the terror state. It prefigures the furtive sadism, the hysteria which totalitarianism insinuates into private and sexual life, the faceless boredom of the killers. Since Kafka wrote, the night knock has come on innumerable doors...
...treatment of Lance even more closely resembled those familiar scenes on local news shows where a rape or murder suspect is brought to police headquarters, ducking his way through a mob of hectoring reporters. Those nightly scenes illustrate television's show-biz fascination with action, drama and sadism...