He admired colors, foodstuffs, smells, taxis, tie shops, ice cream, the "orgy of violent lights" that was Broadway, a jazz bar in Harlem and the giant Camel advertising icon of "an American soldier, his mouth open, puffing out clouds of real smoke".
Camus made a similar voyage to New York when he was thirty-two, in 1946, on his only visit to the U.S. The war had ended, and Camus watched with relief, from the deck of the S.S. Oregon, as the "very edge of a wounded earth" receded and gave way, several weeks later, to the "orgy of violent lights" of Manhattan.
Muslims have to be painted in a scary and violent light because doing so creates hysteria and fear of the Other.
An eerie atmosphere is contrived by a violent artificial lighting though the scene apparently takes place in the open, on the planks of some platform overlooking a deep blue space.
The music is a gripping procession of half-lighted swirls, plaintive melodic gestures and stark, violent outbursts; light emerges but fleetingly, penetrating now and again through a dense, near-motionless ooze of moaning strings, growling brass and agitated percussion.
"I wanted a black background, so I took the picture with the room in black and a violent flash light at the side".
Violent riots lit up the city of Baltimore, Maryland yesterday following the funeral of Freddie Gray.
Bradford Young (Selma, A Most Violent Year) lights crucial interior scenes perfectly, positions the camera in the most opportune places on the countryside that surrounds the space ship and makes scenes of the pods floating precariously above the earth look like ominous vehicles of mass destruction.
She wonders now, is life a violent burst of light?
Brought to the police station for questioning on charges of "light violent acts" and "insults of anti-Semitic nature," Mr. Galliano had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal driving limit, the police official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity in keeping with police regulations.
The unspeakable conditions, the grime, haunted faces, violent outbursts and eerie lighting — along with the startling contrast between the splendor of the natural surroundings and the ugliness of the camp — makes this place of death come alive, a verisimilitude that's almost undone when a heavily tattooed Colin Farrell starts throwing gangster attitude.
