Word: vileness
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McEwan goes beyond Conrad in his exploration of human psychology. He notes that bestial hatred and spiritual ecstasy are flip sides of the same coin: one begets the other. Sex best illustrates this paradox--in the tender, familiar love-making of the two couples and the vile bestial encounter with the dogs we are presented with the two ends of the scale. Even more frightening than the darkness is the idea that all good is dependent upon...
...enjoy it. "Vampires are lucky," observes the cop's junkie girlfriend (co-screenwriter Zoe Lund). "They can feed on others. We gotta eat away at ourselves." Bad Lieutenant is a serious film about the gnawing of conscience and the thirst for redemption, but the tone is so dispassionately vile it may leave viewers shaken or sick...
...believe pensions should go up, foreign aid up, defense down, jobs up. Darling, are we having baked beans or the children for tea?" It was natural to fear that the citizens here should be similarly Janus-faced. Out came the aforementioned bottle, and a swig of vile liquor arrived in my gullet...
...seems that any given election will involve`alternative votes,' prompted by vile anarchistsintent upon ruining the democratic fiber of ourstudent government," said Aronberg, tongue firmlyin cheek...
...movie's plot is also stunted; their is no story involved, just a point: salesmen suck, life sucks. None of the characters accomplish anything, they just sink deeper into the depths of real estate salesmanship and the vile morass of life...