Word: sadisme
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...Often in Dassin films, eroticism shades into sadism. Brute Force and Night and the City have violent thrashings. In The Law, released in the States as Where the Hot Wind Blows, Gina Lollobrigida is strapped down and whipped by her mother. Jean Servais, the honcho of the Rififi heist, commands his ex-girlfriend to strip and then whips her with a belt; later in the film, Dassin, playing one of the hoods, is lashed to a pillar and shot...
...know this is a bad idea the minute we meet its proprietor, played by Dennis Hopper. He's not quite in full Blue Velvet mode, but his sadism is understated and very effective as he works James and Tara almost to death, until, at last, the wormlike James turns on him when his cruelty to the girl turns murderous...
...ghosts of Auschwitz do haunt the novella through the obsession of Martens’ colleague with a torture instrument named the “Boger swing.” The inventor of this device, William Boger, was, in fact, an infamous Auschwitz guard known for instances of sadism. Like a secret mentioned in the first act of a tragedy, the Boger swing sits on the desk waiting patiently to go off.But Kertész’s novella is constructed around a vacuum of action, creating such a vast amount of unreleased pressure that not only does the dictatorship implode...
...members usually dismissed science fiction and horror as candidates for Best Picture--from the 1933 King Kong (just a trick movie) to Psycho (just an exercise in sadism from a director, Alfred Hitchcock, who should know better) to 2001 (what was that about?). Jaws and Star Wars did get Best Picture nominations but didn't take the top prize. See, these weren't people movies; they were simply the sum of their monster or sci-fi special effects...
...year, and unleash them on failed films with bigger budgets and higher ambitions. But Untraceable really is disgraceable. It's bad enough when a movie offers up atrocity scenes that would make the Nanking soldiers seem like Hannah Montana; it's repellent when the movie dresses up the sadism in a moral message that condemns the very weakness it is exploiting...