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"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" (a gem of a noir title if there ever was one, bespeaking a bleak, fatalistic vision) contains no romantic subplot, unless you count the Cagney character's involvement with the rich woman, which is more about greed and rebellion than love.
It's message concerning the perils of corporate greed and it's ramifications are very eloquently stated.
Except, once on the train things begin to unravel as greed takes over one of the guys, another gets jumpy and then dead bodies begin to turn up.
Even the characters sound good: a tough-talking female salvage pilot; the naive bartender/wannabe space explorer; the pilot's ex boyfriend, a man so drunken with greed that he'd risk an entire planet to try and turn a profit.
For a start, none of the "shows" in this film are presented as anything other than what they are: grotesque pandering to the participants' greed and vanity and the audience's deviant voyeurism.
I believe everyone involved in its production was cynically motivated by greed and hubris, and possibly large quantities of pharmaceuticals.
Revolting politicians and their greed are to blame, not only the desperate young men who lose their reasoning while trying to be someone.
Unhappily, the scriptwriters pretended that they knew better than Forsyth how to tell a story, and they got rid of the mining guy's story, of old Manson's greed and of young Manson's lust, and of the tribal question story, in exchange for a meaningless story about Shannon's wife, and the one of the pain-in-the-ass journalist who gets killed, which distracts the spectator's attention.
Inferno was mostly morality and i could deal with it because it was something different but in hellseeker, we have "Lets make a deal" Kirsty and a cheating spouse and also a tale of greed.
A film dealing with greed and envy.
It was great to see the plot unfold in unexpected ways, and to see these characters mess with one another, motivated only by greed, lust, and fear.
This atmospheric, black & white, whodunit about one stormy night near the Canadian border in a motel on the American side is a solid, entertaining triple murder tale about greed, corruption, and revenge.
Roddy McDowell and Ozzie Davis are fantastic in this eerie little piece about greed, deception, and revenge.
There are areas where the movie is not perfect: it is so highly pessimistic and denounces the greed and selfishness of Egyptian men with so much vigor that it appears somewhat simplistic.
Political scientists tell us that rentier economies, or economies that depend on oil and foreign aid, stimulate greed and grievances.
The politics of greed and grievance replace more far-sighted policymaking.
Some were driven by an honest mission to expand property ownership; others were driven by greed.
But one need only consider the massive centralization of power among cryptocurrency “miners,” exchanges, developers, and wealth holders to see that blockchain is not about decentralization and democracy; it is about greed.
Indeed, in the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, widespread popular movements against rising inequality and elite greed are becoming highly salient issues in looming national elections.
Since a common diagnosis of the problems generated in the financial services business holds that human greed is to blame, a German think tank recently suggested that people with a genetic proclivity to high dopamine levels should be barred from taking leading positions in financial institutions.
And, while China’s geopolitical status is rising rapidly, alongside its economic might, the US continues to squander its global leadership, owing to the unchecked greed of its political and economic elites and the self-made trap of perpetual war in the Middle East.
The US political system has been captured by the greed of its wealthy elites, whose narrow goals are to cut corporate and personal tax rates, maximize their vast personal fortunes, and curtail constructive US leadership in global economic development.
The destruction of democratic institutions was now being driven both by the desire for simplicity and by pure greed.
This repression has had a serious impact on the scientific community, with Russia’s top scientific minds – unwilling to remain in an environment where greed and corruption stifle creativity and exploration – joining investors and capital in fleeing the country.
Eliminating corruption will be possible only with an effective combination of smart prevention strategies and robust law enforcement, underpinned by the belief that greed can be unlearned, accountability can be taught, and impunity can be terminated.
Not really, because greed and amorality in financial markets have been common throughout the ages.
Fourth, greed cannot be controlled by any appeal to morality and values.
That period was, in many people’s view, tarnished by greed, with rapid GDP growth accompanied by increasing inequality of income and wellbeing.
According to Swaraj, India joined the agreement not “out of greed or fear,” but “because of our commitment to protecting the environment.”
The Evian Summit will clarify whether greed, ignorance, and the bombast of war have closed the eyes of the US entirely, and whether Europe and Japan will look inward rather than outward.
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