"Saw," directed by James Wan from a screenplay by Mr. Whannell, does a better-than-average job of conveying the panic and helplessness of men terrorized by a sadist in a degrading environment, but it is still not especially scary.
The New York Times Stephen Holden gave a mixed review saying the film "does a better-than-average job of conveying the panic and helplessness of men terrorized by a sadist in a degrading environment, but it is still not especially scary.
They show the helplessness of both men and animals when faced by the enormities of a rampant and hostile natural world.
Yes, the heart of the world weighed heavy, with the helplessness of tears, For the man cut down in a Texas town, in the summer of his years.
This is Janacek's loving yet cleareyed paean to natural forces and a reminder of man's helplessness before them.
This opera is Janacek's loving yet clear-eyed paean to natural forces and a reminder of man's helplessness before them.
In The Cinema and Ireland (1988), Anthony Slide mentions both Hayes and Manning, noting the unfolding human drama that expresses "the helplessness of the two IRA men ordered to murder two British soldiers in revenge for the execution of two IRA men held by the British" (19).
Attracted to Jamie and shocked at what has happened to Amy Bellette in the years since he last saw her, Nathan finds himself grappling with feelings he'd thought he'd stifled many years ago and experiencing "the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again".
The action is so presented that the final impression is not of human helplessness at the hands of maligning gods nor of man as the pawn of fate.
In our analysis, the diminished masculine position was particularly characterized by feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and men's interpretation of their lives as compromised or constrained by having acquired HIV.
