One of the things that moviemakers dream of is the excitement of capturing the sheer flux of life, the interaction of many motions, large and small say, a mass of people surging forward (in war, revolution, or just getting to work), and, within that mass, the movements of a few individuals (lovers, murderers, executives late for an appointment).
One of the things that moviemakers dream of is the excitement of capturing the sheer flux of life, the interaction of many motions, large and small — say, a mass of people surging forward (in war, revolution, or just getting to work), and, within that mass, the movements of a few individuals (lovers, murderers, executives late for an appointment).
Andrei Ujica opens this found-footage documentary with smeary color images of that former Romanian dictator shortly after his arrest in 1989 and then cuts to stark, silent, gripping black-and-white images, shot from on high, of thousands of people massing, surging and running in 1965, when Ceausescu's predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, died.
According to one oft-cited measurement, China's police has recorded the annual number of "mass incidents" (over one hundred people) surging more than eight-fold between 1993 and 2004, to 74,000 that year.
The released mass surged down the 600 m long 10° mountain slope, which was covered by grass in the upper part and by forest in the lower part, and the flow direction then changed perpendicularly after clashing into the cliff on the left side of the Stava Creek (Fig. 3b).
"Slow down!" he boomed, as a mass of people surged down the stairs, spotted a train and began to stampede.
In one, shifting proletarian masses surge about the stage with the slightly robotic quality seen in much of Eifman's group choreography and with the sharp-angled bodies frequently seen in his pas de deux.
These riots aren't a mass surge, taking everyone along; they aren't even a demonstration (except at their very beginnings in Tottenham).
I was eager to join the surging masses and abandon my cellular company of four years, Sprint PCS, for the potentially greener pastures of T-Mobile, a decision that had everything to do with poor customer service and absolutely nothing to do with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
"The running of surging masses on fire with anger, the running of a child doing his best to hold back tears until he reaches his house, the running of a heroine who has forsaken everything but the desire to flee being able to show wonderful ways of running, running that expresses the very act of living, the pulse of life, across the screen would give me enormous delight.
