Taken together, these everyday forms of repression create a climate of fear that has a profound chilling effect on the exercise of fundamental freedoms in Cuban society.
Boasting utterly believable performances that ensure no one is cast as either devil or angel, this is a mesmerising depiction of everyday madness in which social repression and religious dogma lead to terrible tragedy, both physical and metaphysical.
Lee's work, which she directed herself with a dynamite four-actor ensemble, is most eloquent when it bursts out of its tactful realistic frame — when rap music blares and the characters dance with violent abandon or when they act out with juvenile rituals that provide a reprieve from the repression of the everyday.
Many have been blameless fantasists seeking to compensate via a gender-switched disguise for the repressions of their everyday existence.
He writes about the difference between doctrine and everyday practice: the drinking, bullying and repression, the power struggles.
Urrutia is a member of Opus Dei, repelled by everyday humanity, twisted by the semi-repression of his homosexuality and tormented about his shortcomings by an engimatic shadow figure, a "wizened youth".
In the 1970s, a military junta took over Uruguay, and repression and violence pervaded the everyday life of ordinary citizens; Rimer Cardillo made art that protested these conditions.
Whether Mr. Trebicka's death was a result of an accident or something more sinister, the public reaction has revealed how little faith the people of this small, poor European country have in their authorities after enduring decades of Stalinist repression followed by years of everyday corruption.
What appears to be a mundane depiction of Berliners going about their everyday lives reveals, on closer inspection, the repression, fear and looming cruelty of life in a city split into the communist East and the capitalist, democratic West.
Her film is a spirited, often devastating reflection on freedom that details the repression of women in Iran through chilling everyday moments rather than sensationalist drama that aligns good all too easily against evil.
