They are very different movies — Mr. De Palma's is insistently political, while the Coens' is cloaked in allegory — but each presents a cold, terrifying vision of a universe where justice is no match for brutality.
Bolaño can be cold, terrifying, and morally severe (see "By Night In Chile"), but he also invented Juan García Madero, the seventeen-year-old disaffected law student and aspiring poet whose ebullient and meticulous diary constitutes the first hundred and fifty pages of "The Savage Detectives".
In the place I had locked them for their safety, they died.There in the dark, cold, terrifying waters of what must have seemed an abyss.
I was a new and panicked mom, the thought of my baby in any sort of pain, even if it was just a cold, was terrifying.
Sure that doesn't sound like a lot, but even if you're stuck with the most craven empty-suit fat cat you can imagine, they'll still hear "no more lobbyist-paid junkets, no more yucking it up on cable news, no more taxpayer funded meal ticket," and that's pretty terrifying even to the cold-hearted cynics in congress.
It was 1986, and I was terrified that the Cold War would lead to nuclear war.
Writer-director Tony Gilroy interestingly conveys the simple idea of Cross being a drug addict, terrified of going cold turkey.
Then he shows the bottle to Campbell Bradford, who takes a look at it, becomes terrified, mentions that cold river and dies.
Even if the results are "cold, silly, downright terrifying" for some viewers.
Cold turkey is terrifying and dangerous, but you can live through it, particularly at 30 years of age.
