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Sentimentality – combined with scenes of excessively lingering brutality – are among the great cinema vices of our times, especially among directors who purport to be grim realists.
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For my taste McQueen lingers too long on scenes of brutal floggings and assaults (though the sex is not tastelessly explicit), which may be what white viewers need to be reminded of – except excessively explicit violence is a staple of many modern films, where the old saying that "less is more" has long been forgotten.
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Excessively long memories make it difficult for people to get on with one another, as will be very apparent in any community where blood feuds tend to linger on.
It lingered.
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