The direction is superb in its control and the cinematography creates a gripping docu-realist vision.
In 1837, the elder Hong had, over the course of 40 days, been gripped by visions in which he ascended to a "beautiful and luminous place" where he was given a sword to kill demons.
He spent several years in a corporate engineering job before he quit in disgust, gripped by visions of his mortality after a near-collision during his commute.
It was an ominous vision that gripped the Victorian imagination — a far cry from the ancient Greek notion of the ocean as an immense world-river named for Oceanus, the Titan, and populated by a trident-toting Poseidon and schools of mermaids.
Re-reading this book, I'm gripped by Childers' vision of lonely, bleak-romantic, North Sea-battered islands.
In the same place where Spaniards traded goods, the French before them, and centuries upon centuries of Native American tribes before them, we traded visions of a world gripped by the Gospel, visions of justice and equality for all, and visions of ending poverty and pollution.
"I think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely," she said.
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (020-7922 2922) tonly only; 'So Great a Crime' (0844 847 1652) to 22 Jan; 'Fiesco' (020-7383 9034) to 23 Feb In the Republic of Happiness, Martin Crimp's satirico-absurdist vision of dysfunctional families and cults, is darkly gripping.
But its relentless, close-up vision of one woman's self-mutilation is inescapably gripping, if you can stand to watch.
The finished vessel, polished to a high gleam, fulfills a vision that gripped Mr. Roe in the late 1970's when, angry and adrift, he was befriended by a parish priest and found purpose through religion.
