With a blend of documentary and fiction, Ying roots the action firmly in a depressing cultural context: the ubiquitous official loudspeakers blaring police announcements and the television droning patriotic propaganda belie the economic and moral corruption that pervades the system and infects private life.
I saw and enjoyed Ron Howard's Rush about two competing Formula One race car drivers, and I HATED a movie called Prisoners which stars Hugh Jackman, It is an ugly, evil film with depressing moral context and I recommend you skip it.
That number is depressing enough without any context, but when you factor in the evidence that suggests many of those killings happened at the firearm toting hands of those employed to uphold the law, it becomes downright terrifying.
The script -- by Robert Towne, who contributed to the first "Mission" and also, if it's not too depressing to mention in this context, wrote "Chinatown" -- gives him lines that call for camp rather than the dour conviction he tries for.
In that context, it is a depressing example of the inability of the Super League clubs to see the bigger picture that none of them has identified Scotland as a target area.
Whereas in this context, it was even more depressing.
As world leaders return to their respective countries following the UN Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the context for implementation provides a depressing background.
In this context, it's all the more depressing to find highly regarded American universities giving in to the notion that racial justice requires a new form of repression.
Taken out of context, the line sounds stark and depressing, like an admission of self-hatred.
In more recent criticism, critics have tended to focus on the novel's historical context, but The Wells reputation as "the most depressing lesbian novel ever written" persists and is still controversial.
