"Living shut up like an animal turns you into an animal.
Officer said this is not [sic] hotal which one I give just live and shut up".
Indeed, her three films are linked by a careful but nevertheless ruthless desire to uncover the facts of life under examination or, more accurately, the facts of lives that get shut up, literally and figuratively, because of the stigma the world places on difference.
Lorentzen finds the imperfection of their lives disturbing: Grow up, shut up, and settle; the only alternative is insanity (Greenberg, I so far neglected to mention, has recently been discharged from a mental ward).
7. Anyone wondering if the pin or anything else helps or hurts, can always ask the black, Latino, Muslim, disabled, queer and female people in their lives for feedback, then shut up and listen.
At "No, You Shut Up! Live" (Fusion Stage, 9 p.m. Saturday), Paul F. Tompkins hosts an in-person version of his puppet-peopled current-events panel show, while "Adam Ruins Everything Live!" (the Downtown Independent, 7 p.m. Saturday) brings Adam Conover's Web-born cable TV series, in which he destroys cherished beliefs, straight to the people.
Together, we will have the first hardest conversation: We'll tell your inner chicken to shut up! Join me live for a four-part teleseminar series on Wednesdays at noon, starting Nov. 9.
"If you really care about this and the situation, then don't sell weapons to these countries – don't arm them, or if you think business is more important that people's lives, just sell the weapons and shut up".
I can't help thinking of the unbearable scene in his autobiographical 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives in which the father bawls "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" over the mother's howls as he batters her to the hall floor.
