Sentences with phrase «violent characters who»

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Jehu is one of those hyper - violent Old Testament characters who make Christians uncomfortable.

Unless the people who penned the Gospels failed to mention that Jesus, God with us, was violent, then let's assume that the character of the God of the Old Testament and the character of the Jesus of Revelation must reflect the character of the earthly Jesus.

She suggests that the anti-Muslim views of Shourie, who is otherwise capable of intelligent commentary, may owe to «something volatile and emotionally violent in his character... something that lashes out at a perceived threat and refuses to take seriously the evidence that it might not be a threat.»

But males who really identified with their characters in the sexist, violent games didn't feel as much empathy for the victim,» said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at The Ohio State University.

But results showed male players who identified closely with male characters in violent - sexist games were the ones who showed the least empathy.

Results showed that male players who strongly identified with their character in the sexist and violent games showed the least empathy.

Like the 1997 Austro - German production, I was unquestionably distanced from the actions out of a human need to dissociate with the stories and characters who move along in Haneke's violent, pseudo-sexually abhorrent world.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

The digging party, with its suggestions of film - noir plot twists and resonances, fulfills its violent implications with the arrival of a rough - hewn neighbor (played by the majestically stolid character actor Tom Bower), who tries to dissuade Tim from the excavation with allusions to uneasy spirits, evil history, and «the Chicago Hall of Fame.»

Grier's character is a tough African American woman who, although foreign to violent crime, decides to pull one on the criminals and the detectives to pursue her financial stability.

Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), «one of the best and most important directors in the world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.

She blames herself for the loss of her parents, a bit of torment that provides Woodley with a chance to add psychological depth to a character who also struggles to contain her most violent impulses.

On one level, the film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), trots out a very familiar sort of action - hero origin story: Victimized by violent crime in a cyberpunk future, main character Grey Trace (Logan Marshall - Green) vows to hunt down the men who killed his wife.

Tony is pretty much an everyman character going about his daily business when he happens to see what he sees, which leads to one of Argento's more memorable set pieces as Tony is trapped between the two glass doors of the art gallery, unable to help the victim inside who is bleeding on the floor and unable to escape outside to fetch help, and his and Julia's situation and relationship is played out in a very natural way, the scenes in their apartment with just the two of them interacting being as integral to the plot as the more violent scenes.

A breakthrough film for several young Asian performers, the problems with Better Luck Tomorrow begin and end with the passivity of protagonist Ben (Parry Shen), who, when asked to provide the violent plot point that propels the film to its conclusion, breaks out of character so mortally the film never recovers.

Chicken with Plums (PG - 13 for drugs, smoking, sensuality and violent images) Maudlin, character - driven drama, set in Teheran in the Fifties, about an inconsolable violinist (Mathieu Amalric) who loses the will to live after his wife (Golshifteh Farahani) destroys his beloved instrument during a heated argument.

The trailer shows the further adventures of Charlotte Gainsbourg's sex addict character who finds herself journeying through the darker parts of a violent and sexual world.

Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Trespass) plays the titular character, an ex-con who has managed to turn his life around, despite his tendencies toward a violent temper and antisocial behavior.

But don't be mistaken — the film very much has Ford's steely and militant glamour, especially as it relates to Adams» character Susan, a gallerist and Los Angeles society type whose marriage is on the brink of collapse, and who interprets the manuscript of a violent novel by her first husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), as a metaphor for their own failed relationship.

Wymark as the inspector is the central character, who's the antithesis of Sherlock Holmes, trying to figure out the perpetrator of the violent crimes more by hit and miss and dumb luck than with logic and deduction.

Bates and Leigh, who is introduced as an adult (in the book, her character remains a child), have been sworn enemies for 15 years, since the violent death of Bates's husband (the ubiquitous David Strathairn).

The film's comparison points are clear — a little bit of «Scum,» a little bit of «A Prophet «-- but it sets itself apart by making Jack O'Connell «s central character Eric (who is «starred up,» prison slang for being a high - risk violent offender) a hair - trigger, emotionally fucked psychopath, and by putting him in the same wing as his father Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), a long - time lifer who's the right - hand man to prison kingpin Spencer (Peter Ferdinando).

It's brutal and violent, and asks us to sympathise with characters so flawed that they make Bruce Wayne look like a well - adjusted millionaire who simply likes fancy dress.

The only other significant character to complicate the mix is a sour old busybody (Camryn Manheim) who passes the stolen car on the road and has the bad luck to intervene just as the fun turns violent — as the carefree lark evolves into a more high - stakes action movie.

It also has a lead character who chooses to carry out acts of violent vengeance and at times isn't completely up to the task.

Violent content will be the greatest concern for families, and they can expect the depiction of a young character who is seen dead and one who attempts suicide using a ball of yarn around the neck.

Ghosts apparently are people who died violent deaths, which raises the question, why does only one character who dies in the house become a ghost?

Less likely to question — several characters mention that the heat and drought are bound pt make people snap; in fact one character wonders who will be the next to snap and do something violent.

The writer manages in a liitle more than one hundred pages to outline a character who reminds the reader of Travis Bickle («Taxi Driver» by M. Scorcese) and for whom we feel sympathy despite his extraordinary violent deeds.

It revolves around three characters: former police officer Adrian Wall, who has just been released after doing 13 years hard time for a violent crime he swears he didn't commit; the victim's son, Gideon, who wants revenge; and Detective Elizabeth Black, the only person who believes that Wall is innocent.

The lawyer was a character in the game who complained about violent video games, and that they were corrupting the minds of young people.

Once the battery is gone the boogeyman will be unleashed who will drag you down into darkness and you can hear your character's screams and violent shrieks that will send chills down your spine.

Most violent video games don't include characters, who engage in combat, under the age of 15.

Much, although not all, of the material for this exhibition was drawn from the Judge Dredd comics — a dystopian future - vision that focuses on a central character who dispenses an authoritarian, immediate and violent form of justice.