Dreyer's impious, anarchic drama, a cry of rage at abusive authority — whether political, familial, religious, or moral — celebrates erotic love as the natural order of things.
When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation.
The great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's melancholy family saga "There Was a Father" (Criterion), made in 1942, was approved by wartime censors for its sentimental theme of dutiful sacrifice, yet it, too, confronts abusive authority.
It is intriguing, then, to contrast these two overlapping, but significantly differing, accounts of Brian Wilson's genius and his unravelling, including his long wilderness years as a patient of the rogue psychologist Eugene Landy, another domineering and abusive authority figure.
Craig Zobel's "Compliance," based on an actual incident, is at once an intensely disturbing report on the state of the American workplace and a queasy, exploitative allegory of abusive authority (including, perhaps, the power of a director to manipulate unsuspecting performers and spectators).
Despite the lack of respect and abusive authority towards Catalonia, most Catalans don't feel Spanish not only for the reasons above but also because we have our own culture and language, our traditions and way of living and our own institutions".
Unfortunately, if Thomas' views become the law of the land, and they well might in a country that has already suspended fourth amendment due process rights for people accused of ties to terrorism, students may effectively lose all legal protection against abusive authority.
Suffice it to say that Panahi knows that he's the subject of relentless government surveillance, knows well the menace that he faces, and attributes it unsparingly to abusive religious authority.
Now comes "The Hurricane," depicting Rubin Carter as a black man battling abusive white authority, as racial profiling and the Diallo case have put racism and policing on the national agenda.
I know this was a needless war of choice, but at the same time I just can't fully grasp the abusive political authority exercised by our government.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sided with the residents, finding that the directors had taken some actions that were "misguided, abusive of authority and made without thoughts of impacts or consequences".
