Kon Satoshi's Perfect Blue (1997) suggests the early Japanese New Wave films of director Oshima Nagisa with its violent exploration of a media-damaged personality.
His new exhibition is inspired by the Latin American phenomenon of the telenovela – a form of mini-series soap opera – and is indirectly inspired by Jean Genet's The Maids, a violent exploration of power between unequals.
From the moment the Europeans dispatched their cannon-bearing wooden ships on a violent exploration and conquest of the globe, there has never been a moment when one or more empires weren't rising as others waned, or when at least two and sometimes several "great powers" weren't competing for ways to divide the planetary spoils and organize, encroach upon, or take over spheres of influence.
It has served as the basis for crime thrillers ("They Live by Night," "Bonnie and Clyde"), for violent explorations of the limits of freedom ("Easy Rider," "Thelma & Louise"), for bruising tests of love and friendship ("Two for the Road," "Scarecrow").
8 p.m., Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400 or www.symphonyspace.org; $25; students and 65+, $15. (Kinetz) LEVY DANCE (Tonight and tomorrow night) This modern-dance company, from San Francisco, will perform the company director Benjamin Levy's new "Violent Momentum," an exploration of the relationship between emotional insight and violent outbursts.
These concepts are essential to any forensic practice, theoretical modeling on acting outs and violent acts, clinical exploration and risk and violence management.
Given the prevalence of violence at taxi cab ranks in South Africa [21], as well as in the informal sector [22], the role that modes of transportation and different types of employment play in violent injuries also deserves exploration.
Where "The Sopranos" and its close cinematic equivalent, "Goodfellas," are warmblooded explorations of violent men bonding, "The Iceman," directed by Ariel Vromen from a screenplay he wrote with Morgan Land, is as cold as the nickname of its title character.
Her first show in this vein was "Fires in the Mirror," an exploration of the violent Crown Heights riots of 1991; her 1993 follow-up, "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," dealt with those in Los Angeles.
Reason: 1.4 (b,d) 1. (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent protests against British firm Majaz,s exploration for copper near the Ecuador border have resulted in three deaths and several kidnappings.
In her latest solemnly perceptive mystery, THE INDIAN BRIDE (Harcourt, $23), Karin Fossum continues her exploration of the way violent crime can crack open the unwritten laws and social taboos of rural Norway.
