Sentences with phrase «in violent revenge»

John Ford was the last candidate imagined to tell the dark tale of a Civil War Veteran who exorcises his demons in violent revenge, but The Searchers inevitably became one of the true treasures of its genre.

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He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

It is a call to Christians, who live in a violent and revenge - filled world, to shun retaliation and revenge and to show appreciation for God's patience and mercy by showing patience and mercy.

Chester, a leading scholar in the field of aggression research, runs the Social Psychology and Neuroscience Lab in VCU's Department of Psychology, which aims to further our understanding of violent behavior, exploring the role of the brain and human psychology behind topics such as revenge, domestic abuse, psychopaths and related topics.

Samuel Fuller's revenge crime thriller is shot in the same brisk and violent manner he shoots his war films.

For all of its carefully executed, cool style, soundtracked to a retro synth score and ironic music cuts, «Revenge» is intensely raw, a violent and hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective in this historically exploitative and misogynistic genre.

Get Carter works as a revenge thriller because Mike Hodges had the confidence to make us subversively root for Jack and then show how his violent acts destroy him in the iconic, near - perfect ending.

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered.

Tarantino's brilliant script for «Django Unchained» is better than the fun, talky, well - made violent revenge western that he finally relinquished — weeks late — after a long battle in the editing room to get it down to 2 hours 45.

Like S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, Coralie Fargeat's Revenge is so extravagantly violent and hopeless that it boasts a weird integrity.

Revenge French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat tears into the rape revenge genre with a startling ferocity in her debut feature, a violent and hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective in this historically exploitative and misogynisticRevenge French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat tears into the rape revenge genre with a startling ferocity in her debut feature, a violent and hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective in this historically exploitative and misogynisticrevenge genre with a startling ferocity in her debut feature, a violent and hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective in this historically exploitative and misogynistic arena.

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

The revenge plot of that 1995 movie was not so coincidentally triggered by the violent death of a young girl (in a drunk - driving accident.)

Cosmically violent, effortlessly urbane and generally bloody brilliant, Drive was a wonderfully gaudy revenge piece that dared position the Mickey Mouse Club's very own Ryan Gosling as a cinematic icon in the making.

Low points include a violent scene where a thug named Mother Russia murders policemen that's played for laughs, Mindy gets revenge using a «sick stick» which results in CGI diarrhea, and there's a sexual assault interrupted by male performance issues.

Paralyzed during a attack in which his wife was killed, a man receives an A.I. implant that offers an experimental cure and allows him to pursue violent revenge.

But to get to the point where he can turn his violent, revenge fantasies into reality, he has to undergo rigorous mental, physical, and emotional training, not to mention become fluent in Arabic and learn the intricacies of jihadis» warped interpretation of the Koran before venturing to Tripoli, Libya to terminate his fiancée's killers with extreme prejudice.

But in the comics, what happens next is that Barton discovers that his family has been assassinated, which irrevocably changes him to a darker and more violent guy, and one out for revenge.

Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge.

Nevada Smith (1966): Steve McQueen seeks revenge for his parents» killers in this stunning, violent prequel to The Carpetbaggers.

«Dead Man Down» tells the story of a New York City enforcer who becomes wrapped up in a web of violent revenge when he seeks to atone for the death of his wife and daughter.

Coralie Fargeat's shocking debut film Revenge is a jaw - dropping, excessively violent retribution tale which leaves you cringing and cheering in equal measure.

Director S. Craig Mahler follows up Bone Tomahawk with Brawl In Cell Block 99, an unflinchingly violent and truly original revenge thriller.

Takeshi is even more oblique in his presentation of violent action and spends the middle of the film on a strange, rambling subplot involving a disgraced mobster (Takeshi again, this time in a supporting role as a fun loving brute with a penchant for rape) and his mission of revenge.

Whether it's the gothic overtones of Stoker, the supernatural horror of Thirst, the surreal technological dreams of I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, or the violent revenge of Oldboy and the rest of the Vengeance Trilogy, the South Korean director specialises in drawing real emotion out of outlandish fantasies.

ONLY GOD FORGIVES reunites DRIVE director Nicolas Winding Refn and lead Ryan Gosling in a violent thriller centred on drug dealer on the run forced to seek revenge on the corrupt Thailand cop who murdered his brother.

By doing things this way, the movie ends up having nothing in the way of tension or mystery, the whole thing ending up being more of a pretentious talk - a-thon character study than the violent, bullet - riddled revenge thriller hinted at early on.

She decides to blackmail the hitman, dragging him into a revenge plot against the pair of criminals that maimed her in a violent heist.

Parents should expect violent confrontations, with brief blood effects, similar to what was presented in Star Wars Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.

Rowlandson prayed for her captors and clung to her belief in God, interpreting her experiences through the lens of her faith, while Duston exacted violent revenge on her captors.

The adoption of this Constitution lays the secure foundation for the people of South Africa to transcend the divisions and strife of the past, which generated gross violations of human rights, the transgression of humanitarian principles in violent conflicts and a legacy of hatred, fear, guilt and revenge.

In the days since, Twitter has followed through by announcing crackdowns on hate symbols and violent groups, revenge porn, and hateful display names.