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...thus, like the characters within, it never achieves its modest promise.The book opens with an alarm at Doyle Cutler’s house and, although nothing concrete has happened, it is clear that that Cutler is a man to look out for. Cutler has all the trappings of a villain??wealth, secrecy, and even a hairless cat. When the central event of the plot—Mary Steckl’s sexual assault—finally occurs midway through the book, it comes as no surprise that it should have happened at Cutler’s mansion.Meanwhile, characters...
Stein adds that initially, he was slightly worried that his having gone to Harvard might affect him negatively with voters—saying that the “Harvard guy” usually ends up being “the dork or the villain?? in movies and television shows...
Perhaps the most egregious offense is the presence of a shifty emissary from the Catholic Church named Monsignor De Angelis who may or may not a by-the-book villain??either “a man of God with a gun, or a gunman who’s found...
...attention” hampered Summers’ agenda more than any resistance by the faculty. “[I]n a university that orients itself toward external markers of prestige and influence,” Lewis concluded, “Summers is a victim in this drama, not a villain??a victim not of faculty anger but of his success at the role assigned to him.” Lewis called on students, faculty, alumni, and members of the governing boards to restore “a true core to undergraduate education,” even...
There’s plenty of blood and more humor in this short than one would expect. The brightly saturated colors and swooping camera work—as well as the relatively non-menacing villain??make it difficult to take the situation too seriously, and it becomes a black comedy in the vein of “American Psycho.” It succeeds in making viewers simultaneously laugh and cringe, but because it is the longest piece even though it takes place in one room and has fairly repetitive character interactions, it overstays its welcome...