The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God - fearing
social outcast whose chess - playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax.
As mentioned, The Raven follows the final days of Edgar Allan Poe's life — presenting the tortured author as a self - absorbed and desperate
social outcast whose work was still, at the time, mostly under - appreciated.
On the other end of the spectrum is Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), a twelve - year - old
social outcast whose mother Fiona (Toni Collette) raises him on her own.
Not exact matches
This is especially true of his practice of table fellowship with sinners and
social outcasts, a habit for which he was severely criticized by those
whose religious heroism was implicitly put in question by such inclusive praxis.
Director Sean Baker,
whose last film was Tangerine, a remarkable movie about transgender prostitutes in West Hollywood, brings his humanist eye to another community of
social outcasts: a group of children spending their summer making mischief at the low - cost motels on the strip leading up to Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.