From the Kafkaesque machinations of the Chinese communist regime to the skeletal refugees of post-partition Calcutta to the imploding Congo, a place 'of dark, deranged power', where the gendarmes, mostly drunk and themselves brutalised beyond redemption, dished out arbitrary, often fatal street violence, Kapuscinski maintains a profound sense of a belief in humanity that sees him through.
In this dark comedy, a deranged U.S. general initiates a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union that sets in motion a doomsday scenario that military and government leaders are powerless to stop.
Excelling as the deranged, dark-eyed preacher, Cave bumped into Nubian princesses, Lolita, Charles Bukowski and, on the rollicking 'We Call Upon the Author', God himself, whom he takes to task for his plotting.
The scene in which Roberta drowns, for instance, has a haunting strangeness: Clyde's consciousness, never very full to begin with, and now divided between murder and guilt, is deranged further by the dark beauty of the lake, the cry of unfamiliar birds, the empty woods that offer haven and escape.
But as she navigates the darker irregularities of a dangerous black market transaction in a severely deranged society, her youthful resilience loses its elasticity, gradually giving way to something bruised and worse.
But the mood became solemn when the discussion turned to the significance of a dark cat lying on a dark floor, a Christmas tree trimmed in gold and a deranged woman with flowing hair running on a secluded beach.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
In her hands they became a living organism; dark and sombre, pale and wan, delicate and sweet, angry – even deranged.
If Vivid Light is about making a pretty city prettier, Dark Mofo is about making a strangely beautiful town seem deliciously deranged.
After all, events in news reports are often more deranged or just plain dishonest, and "Six Feet Under," a dark comedy about a funeral home, is a popular, award-winning television show.
