Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to let loose his sexual-aggressive tendencies. But the consequences of this move for the innocent Lawrence were traumatic. He underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height of the rebellion. From then on, Lawrence was lost to consuming guilt and shame and soon after the assault, Lawrence took up the habit, repeated regularly until his death, of paying a fellow soldier to whip him mercilessly as an act of stimulating penance...
...motivation behind this romantic obsession, Mack argues, was Lawrence's need for redemption--a need spurred not only by his shame about being a bastard, but also by the secret life his unwed parents led in order to evade public scorn and prejudice. What better reason for identifying with a people under the yoke of imperialist domination than his own haunting memories of his mother's rigid morality? (An illegitimate child herself, she pleaded with each of her three sons to redeem her by becoming missionaries...
...candlelight of a questing spirit can shame the sun. The luminous portrayal of Emily Dickinson by Julie Harris does this with piercing beauty...
...this does not obscure the fact that Bergman is working at less than full capacity. The new films lack the daunting, haunted intensity, the sheer stylistic brilliance of the earlier Persona (1966), Shame (1968) and The Passion of Anna (1969). The most recent movies are transitional works, and Face to Face is typical of them. It is a movie that marks time...
...tells Tomas she will sleep with him - but just sleep. She asks for pills to ensure her rest, but she cannot close her eyes. She starts talking to Tomas in bed about an incident where she was set upon by two men and almost raped. She found, to her shame, that she wanted to be violated, but her body would not permit it. She laughs, as if to dismiss this confession - and all it implies - then, out of control, starts to cry, then laugh again, then gasp through both at once. Soon she tries to kill herself. Tomas takes...