Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Since being released from prison, Little has found financial success as a sort of poster boy for reconciliation, helping inmates and former gang members come to terms with what they’ve done. Despite this, as the film progresses it becomes clear Little is as much of a victim as Joe Griffin. His guilt has prevented him from ever starting a family or developing any kind of social life. While Griffin has been able to raise a healthy family, his relationship with his two daughters continues the theme of parents as a potentially destructive influence. His growing preoccupation with...
...Nothing about her male subjects should encourage further dating. Bobby Cannavale uses his amputated arm to sucker women into bed. Dominic Cooper is a fast talking undergrad, who employs the victim defense to improve his grade. In a gleeful little sequence, Josh Charles gives the same speech five times over to break up with different women. The less hideous men, the ones who describe being actually touched by women, like Krasinski and Christopher Meloni (whose bit feels inspired by In the Company of Men) come across as lost and rather foolish boys...
...only fun the film rouses itself to is casting Willis as both Greer, a grizzled, bearded depressive (his son has recently died in a car accident, the victim of lazy screenwriters), and his nearly unstoppable surrogate, who lives out the career as an FBI agent that Greer used to do himself. It's a hoot to see Willis looking young and blond, his face miraculously unlined. This is how he might actually appear today if he'd stayed in TV - and if he'd been a much less daring and dangerous actor. But the spectacle won't lure enough customers...
...Detroit fell victim not to one malign actor but to a whole cast of them. For more than two decades, the insensate auto companies and their union partners and the elected officials who served at their pleasure continued to gun their engines while foreign competitors siphoned away their market share. When this played out against the city's legacy of white racism and the corrosive two-decade rule of a black politician who cared more about retribution than about resurrection, you can begin to see why Detroit careened off the road...
...danger, always try to walk with someone. Be aware of your surroundings,” he said. A BPD spokesperson said that investigators have strong leads in the murder of the teenager and are looking into a number of possible suspects in the other murder case. The pregnant victim, Paola Castillo, was fatally shot while celebrating her 18th birthday early Sunday morning by an uninvited guest who had recently been ejected from her party. On the same day, a house party in Dorchester ended in chaos when apparently unprovoked gunfire broke out, killing 21-year-old Carl Hentz Belizaire...