Word: subhumanity
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Wicker's analysis may be simplistic, but it has merit. For instance, it explains the urban warfare of modern America. Police are not brutal or racist when they shoot to kill, or beat up or harrass "violent subhuman beats." They are protecting normal society. They had to get Fred Hampton before he got us. It is not surprising, then, that "they" populate the Atticas of America...
...follow the news out of the Middle East were not overly surprised by Munich. We have watched, so often before, this mindless, subhuman killing of innocents-in their beds, in their markets, on their school buses...
Epps' difficulty in understanding the film is revealed, I think, in his reference to the local ruffians as "subhuman yokels" and "brutes"--as though the evil they embody couldn't belong to fully human persons. But the facts are otherwise, and situations may arise in which one's only recourse in confronting such persons is to kill them. Kenneth I. Winston...
...archaic one: women are moral voids, empty places in the universe who function only as lightning rods to collect the violence of men. Dustin Hoffmann, a shy mathematician, seeks solitude in Cornwall with his wife, played by Susan George. The wife's sex appeal attracts a group of subhuman yokels, who lure the husband away from the house in order to rape the wife. The double rape scene is brilliantly shot, almost lyrical: it is a celebration of rape and its effects on rapist and victim. After the rape, the husband must prove his masculinity by defending his house...
...Lucifer, wrongly confused with Satan, they say. He is the "Light-Bearer" who urges humans to "enjoy life to the full, to value success, to be gentle and kind and loving." The third is Satan, "the receiver of corrupted bodies and transcendent souls," who impels humans both toward a subhuman life of depravity and a superhuman life of asceticism. The Processeans see Christ as a transcendent "unifier" who ultimately reconciles all three of the competing gods...