Word: shard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast is fine. David Spielberg as Actor Parks poignantly tries to cling to a shard of dignity, and Allan Miller as Abe Burrows pulls more legs than the committee has. The real inquisitor is Bentley, who deals out a blame game that is dramatically deficient and devoid of charity...
...underline the threat, a Khmer Rouge 105-mm. rocket last week blasted out windows in the Ministry of Education building where Rowan was conducting an interview. Rowan inspected one jagged shard of shrapnel still hot from the explosion...
Then he chews the glass one shard at a time into a fine powder and swallows it. There is said to be no taste...
...death, she recalls a dinner with her husband. Enduring cold, light-weight badinage, Karin looks at him with withering contempt; when the contempt goes out of control, so does she. A glass breaks, and her husband suggests they go to bed. Karin stays at the table, fingers a broken shard, and repeats to herself, "It's all a tissue of lies." When Anna helps her undress, she sees the servant smiling dumbly at her; she slaps Anna, and then apologizes. The nurse is not mocking her; she is only stupid, and can't comprehend Karin's hatred. After the peasant...
...been more, to serve both as balance and counterpoint. There should certainly have been more about the men in the film, who are shadows and ciphers. The single most shattering scene in the film becomes, for this reason, unnecessarily oblique. Preparing herself for bed one evening, Karin takes a shard of glass and lacerates her genitals. Raising the frail white silk of her nightgown toward her waist, showing her husband the blood running down her thighs, she grins in triumph and with a hint of perverse satisfaction. Because we know so little of her husband, though, Karin...