Word: sadisme
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...fellow adults: that children, far from being the apple-cheeked, docile innocents their parents thought them, were monsters of imagination, able to look at other monsters with candid relish. (The tales collected by the brothers Grimm-not to mention some of Andersen's own-are packed with sadism and nightmare...
...Sams was acting under orders from Bobby Seale or other Panther officers whom he has implicated (Landon Williams and Rory Hithe) his own history suggests motivation for his actions: a possible desire to ingratiate himself with Carmichael and harm the Party which once expelled him, and a tendency toward sadism. His testimony at Lonnie McLucas' trial would then be explained by his desire to exonerate him self and to tell the story most satisfactory to the Prosecution. (Whether Sams was also working as an agent provocateur, which would explain the tape recording, will probably remain unresolved...
...which he calls Kes. The obvious contrast between earthborn Billy and skyborne Kes is stressed to the breaking point and beyond. The entire film harks back to the angry young man movies of the early '60s, but Director Ken Loach still conjures up some forceful moments. The casual sadism of schoolmasters, the brutality of one child to another are rendered with astounding empathy. One scene, funny and frightening by turns, finds Billy and some peers being dressed down by the headmaster while they try to stop laughing at his endless platitudes and struggle to hold in the tears after...
...Greek conservatives are portrayed as unredeemable goons with a tendency toward sadism and homosexuality. "What is false is the lack of differentiation," complains Helen Vlachos, a former Athens publisher who was placed under house arrest by the junta and later fled the country. "They are all ridiculous in the same way, all brutal in the same...
...apparently typecast him as just another ugly face. Here he shows himself as perhaps the most underrated actor this side of Rod Taylor. He is the consummate inquisitor, and even as he slowly falls in love with Mellie, his thin smile retains an intriguing touch of blood-and-feathers sadism...