Word: torment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confused shrink. At times, these infrequent monologues border on the histrionic, as Burton casts off the necessary restraint of a film star and takes on the exaggerated inflections of a stage actor's voice. But on balance, the technique succeeds, enabling Burton to dedge up the personal torment that his patient Strang has triggered within...
Strindberg was involved in three disastrous marriages that nearly broke his ever precarious hold on sanity. Only his ability to transmute his inner torment into dramatic art saved him. His is a classic case of what Edmund Wilson called "the wound and the bow." From the suppurating wound of his domestic life, as un-healing as was the eagle-torn liver of Prometheus, he gathered the strength to draw the bow of craft, passion and insight and to launch an arrow of dramatic significance that is still in flight more than half a century after his death...
...scenes, but it is arguably the shallowest of this great director's works. In Truffaut's best movies, such as Jules and Jim and Stolen Kisses, the heroes struggle mightily with the eternal conflicts of love, and the audience is all the wiser for living through their torment...
...empathize with what could have been a superlative job of acting. Page's attempt to depict Debby's fantasy world, to which she retreats from an unpleasant reality, further emphasizes his direction's shallowness. Green described a world complete with a separate language and gods who alternately seduce and torment Debby; but such a world could only be shown on film by a master like Ingmar Bergman, who can create powerful, metaphorical dream-images that evoke our own hidden anxieties through the use of visual symbols. Page's portrayal of Debby's private gods as primitive tribesmen--who induce...
Then, as the sun set over the islands, the men held hands in a circle and chanted: "May we always be united in our purpose to free this land from torment. May the bombing stop and the land grow again." Before dawn they had broken up into groups of two or three to improve their chances of evading Marine patrols. Within two days, four of the invaders gave themselves up. But the others remained at large and were joined last week by six additional protesters. Until all are rounded up, the Navy will have to suspend target practice...