After a particularly brutal, attention-grabbing start, "Breaking Point" quickly devolves into a flavorless stew of murder, corruption, blackmail and baby tossing.
Their brutal deaths focused attention on the hardships suffered by more than 340,000 mostly female domestic workers who have migrated to Asia's main financial hub from places such as Indonesia and the Philippines.
You could say this is an activist film of sorts, but the animal rights messages of the film are well taken because they are brutal and demand attention from the viewer.
The longest-lasting of them was a PhD student and would-be novelist called Max Zimmer, who as a heterosexual from a Mormon background found Cheever's attentions brutal and repulsive at first but who grew to love him and, despite the furtiveness, helped to brighten his last few years.
The assembly was organised jointly by the United States and Chile, in the hope of drawing attention to "brutal attacks" by the militants against LGBT people.
This reflects both a realistic sense of the limits on presidential time and attention, and brutal assessments of domestic American politics.
Drohan argues that when faced with human rights activism, British officials sought to evade, discredit, and deflect public criticism of their actions to avoid drawing attention to brutal counterinsurgency practices such as the use of torture during interrogation.
Today, the battle for media attention is brutal.
In the journalist's opinion, Howard's depiction of Conan's brutal physical nature called attention to the dull nature of their lives and offered them a temporary escape.
But the images will also cause disquiet, and raise the legitimate question about whether the media should display in Technicolor the brutal acts of desperate attention-seekers, who are actively seeking the coverage in the first place.
Rainey's death drew national attention to the brutal treatment of mentally-ill inmates in Florida.
