(Dargis)'ELITE SQUAD' (No rating, 1 55, in Portuguese) A relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil about cops and thugs that wants to have its grinding violence and sanctimony too.
In classic exploitation flick fashion, "Elite Squad," a relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil — and the baffling winner of this year's top prize at the Berlin Film Festival — wants to have its grinding violence and sanctimony too.
Almost every night I have watched the news these past few months my senses have been assaulted by unpleasant, at times distressing, images of war: missiles, killings and chemical bombs in Syria, Kenya, the USA.
Based on normative valence and arousal ratings, 100 arousing unpleasant (e.g., mutilations, assaults, etc)., 100 pleasant (e.g., wedding, children, etc)., and 100 neutral (e.g., neutral faces, daily life scenes, etc).
But an accumulation of unpleasant experiences in N.Y.-being assaulted on 23rd St., receiving crank threatening calls from a transvestite, & watching a crazed bum on 49th St.--make the city an unwelcoming, abrasive, savage place to Peter.
Well, I'm here to say that we want to remind everyone that we must deal with the difficult and sometimes "icky" topics of abduction, assault, and kidnapping, as unpleasant as this might be.
For one unpleasant night on Tuesday, the Mets actually outdid the aural assault perpetrated nightly in Yankee Stadium.
Abel Ferrara's crazy, sulphurous, toweringly unpleasant Welcome to New York is like an "issue" movie about sexual assault being beamed to cinema screens live from the seventh circle of hell.
Ms. James added that there were a few unpleasant surprises in the briefing, including the news that a $1.2 million program for a sexual assault response team within the Health and Hospitals Corporation would be cut entirely.
But on another occasion shortly thereafter, she said, Weinstein physically assaulted her, pushing her down, attempting to expose himself and doing "all kinds of unpleasant things".
