Word: vilely
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...temptation in describing a film like this one is to string together several adjectives-witless, ugly, brutal, insensate, stupid. But one word will serve to cover its multitude of sins: The Island is simply vile...
...half a century ago, moviegoers have periodically been made painfully aware of how rotten life can be on a Southern prison farm. Director Rosenberg had a good go at the subject in Cool Hand Luke (1967). But never has the food looked so disgusting, or the living conditions so vile, as they are shown here. Nor have the reprisals and punishments been more brutally demonstrated. Also, the fact that the Brubaker character is modeled after Thomas Murton, an academic penologist who took over an Arkansas prison in the 1960s, gives the film a documentary urgency that its predecessors have lacked...
...plays of G.B.S., talk is the moral equivalent of war. Shaw's weapons are lancing wit and blazing rhetoric. He wages a holy war against middle-class hypocrisy, capitalistic exploitation, the ser vile status of women and humbug in all forms. In Misalliance Shaw argues that the time (1909) has come to blow up the family. In his view it is a web of contractual coercion masquerading as love and care...
...horror: exploding hand bombs, wild gunfire, terrified crowds stampeding in panic. Before it was over, 35 people had been killed; 185 others had been hospitalized with serious injuries. "It was pure savagery against defenseless, humble people," lamented a mourner, Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway, Ireland. "There is something vile in this land. Very, very vile...
...body lay in state, and joined a silent procession behind the cortege as it was taken to the Metropolitan Cathedral. "He was our father and protector," explained one grief-stricken woman carrying a small bouquet of yellow flowers. Said a middle-aged salesman: "The people will never forget this vile...