But those factors – Catholicism, misogyny, an obsession with controlling women's bodies – sound more archaic with each passing year.
In the lawsuit, Burton claims Carrey had an "obsession with controlling and manipulating" White and used surveillance cameras at her home to monitor her.
There's an obsession with controlling things and owning things, and the boundaries what's appropriation and what's love and what's fandom?—are gray areas, really.
But it also hinted at a crucial theme of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime: an obsession with the control of stories.
The question, of course, is how reliable really are these personal health kits, and are they actually simply satisfying a detrimental obsession with control as opposed to a thoughtful and considered approach to keeping an eye on our bodies?
It's a theme that echoes from many earlier Frayn novels like "Spies," "A Landing on the Sun" and the marvelous "Headlong" (a Booker Prize finalist) — that is, how an obsession with order and control is often bowled over by unexpected events, how the need to impose one's own certainties upon the world can lead to a comedy (or tragedy) of errors.
Brad Pitt is an excellent James, weary, lionised, disillusioned, yet with an actor's technique and a sociopath's obsession with control.
Depending upon whose hindsight one accepts, the Tisch legacy at CBS is either that fiscal sanity and accountability were brought to bear upon a lax, spendthrift corporate culture or that a myopic obsession with controlling costs inflicted irreparable harm upon a once revered institution, CBS News. (Tisch cut thirty million dollars from the news budget).
The insecurity brought on by first one then the other parent threatening to leave perhaps led to her later obsession with control – a need for routine and punctuality and a ferocious work ethic.
