Yet this movie doesn't beg for sympathy; there are no lingering scenes of anguished confessions at A.A. meetings.
Other films that make it into the torture porn category are Wolf Creek, Turistas and The Devil's Rejects, with each new film promising higher levels of violence - guaranteeing not just a considerable body count, but long, lingering scenes of terror, torture and pain.
But the lingering, dispiriting scene of the afternoon was, surely, that of Rooney walking from the field on the hour, a red card waved above his petulant head after an ill-advised entanglement with the most delicate part of Ricardo Carvalho's anatomy.
Women TURNER: The female body always has been used for entertainment-slash-abuse. I loved how in "American Psycho" Mary put a lot of gratuitous shots of Christian Bale's body, these long, lingering shower scenes, completely shot the way women are done in movies.
Throughout "Friday Night," especially in its lingering sex scenes, the camera zeroes in for extreme close-ups.
The series also finds ways to weave in subplots that were not in Mr. Kirkman's original tales, expanding on the back stories of supporting characters, lingering on scenes that in the comics are told in just a few panels.
In a review of Mr. 3000 for The Manhattan Mercury, arts critic G.W. Clift specifically highlighted Hurlbut's work on the film, commenting: "Mr. 3000 has several attractions, even unexpected ones like Shane Hurlbut's heart-stopping photography.... one doesn't mind that it lingers over scenes, in part because the scenes look so very good".
Both made Britain great.Sir Alex would now do well to avoid Lady Thatcher's biggest mistake: by lingering at the scene of his triumph.
Hundreds of thousands of YouTube viewers linger on scenes from Christie's town-hall meetings, like the one in which he takes apart a teacher for her histrionics.
Van den Brink, the editor in chief of the VPRO television network in the Netherlands, lingers on scenes of water shimmering like fish scales under the sun.
