The true schism here, however, is between the brainless fun of the action plot and Stone's cheap exploitation of the cartels» real -
life sadism.
Not exact matches
Sadism: alive and well and
living in middle America.
It says a lot about the film that it isn't just the villains who are guilty of inexcusable
sadism and shocking disregard for
life.
Dreamily kind for the most part, but given to fits of furniture - hurling rage and truth - telling so blunt it borders on
sadism, Manglehorn drifts through his own
life, observing the often quirky people around him as if from a great, sad distance.
As the American novelist Edmund White has succinctly phrased it: «The spiritual side of
life, to be sure, is diminished by jokes... Humor is the enemy of lyric beauty and
sadism (Jean Genet is never funny), but their friend - or at least their willing accomplice — is wan humor, weak jokes, old gags, tired one - liners.