The deliberate brutality inflicted upon pigs, cows and sheep is every bit as violent and savage too.
But I have now come to the conclusion that fiction can never match the audacious brutality visited upon those children for so many years.
How can we talk about the crime and violence perpetrated by men and boys while ignoring the brutality inflicted upon men and boys?
Not seeing the brutality inflicted upon the non-Pashtun peoples is tantamount to seeing Yugoslavia through the eyes of the Serbs or South Africa through the eyes of the Afrikaners.
"We take no pleasure in ruling that the statute of limitations remains an insuperable obstacle to his effort to obtain adequate compensation for the brutality inflicted upon him 35 years ago," Judge Jon O. Newman wrote for the panel, which also included Chief Judge John M. Walker Jr. and Judge Amalya L. Kearse.
The core of the film is complicity and guilt: two crucial scenes, viewed in flashback (Anthony mentions them — Martha's involvement in another girl's rape by the cult leader, and an act of criminal "brutality" committed "upon ordinary people" outside the cult), provide the key to the drama.
It then leaps forward to immerse us into a fetid, dystopian inner-city slum of the near-future – the Terrordome – where drugs, racism and crime are as rife as the brutality visited upon the majority black inhabitants by the police (the worst offender is a black cop, suggesting a plantation mentality has taken hold).
"If this is how they torture China," a Weibo user, who said he was a college student from Chengdu, said, "we must retaliate in kind!" The humiliating brutality inflicted upon Dao is absurd, savage, and disturbing, but the speed at which it has acquired the force of a geopolitical parable about the Sino-American relationship should give one pause.
It is especially important now, in the face of the brutality visited upon us, that we demonstrate to the world our dedication to those values that distinguish our country from those regimes where guilt and innocence are decided by fiat of the ruler.
The heartless brutality inflicted upon the Animal Kingdom by poachers is bloody awful.
