McDonagh's theme of expiation by violence plays a repellent double game; even as his plot pivots on the acknowledgment of misdirected anger and the emotional effort to overcome it, the movie reflects an almost erotically tantalizing excitement at the prospect of showing the gory impact of that warped rage.
In fact, there are few things more repellent than being prodded into violence by radicals who have less to lose than they do.
His work traffics in a range of subjects that most average readers—even those who fancy themselves to have transgressive tastes would find viscerally repellent: a meeting-ground of violence and pornography so limitless it becomes difficult to tell what we're actually reading.
I have interviewed dozens of ex-jihadis – and they almost all named those videos as a key point in pushing them over from repellent religious bigotry into overtly planning violence.
In fact, there are few things more repellent to most people than being prodded into violence by radicals who have less to lose than they do.
These are moments of shocking and repellent horror — but one depicts violent retribution for officially sanctioned violence, and the other two are morally repellent scenes of cruelty exerted by authority, which might well cause viewers to associate them with the practices of the Chinese government on its citizens at home.
Frank does repellent things with his wrench to people's faces, and the violence quickly brims with that hip, midnight-movie smugness which condemns anyone who shies away from it as being intolerably square of soul — in short, a pussy.
The songs can be brutal or sullen, repellent or disgusted, uncertain or furious; they view the world as an endless purgatory, full of random violence and pain.
The next morning, still drunk, reeling with grief, and dreading their own straight-and-narrow road to doom, the men after a repellent outburst of violence take off for London in search of adventure.
"Need Elephant Repellent?
