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Grungy, and undermined by druggy influences, the movie doesn't take shape.
If one can judge by this film alone (as, unfortunately, I must, though that won't be the case for long), Marins' big influences are Jung, Bosch, and E.C. Comics, which places this picture in heavy company by virtue of its aspirations alone, despite its technical shortcomings.
Mario Bava's TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE (aka BAY OF BLOOD) is often noted as one of the main influences of the more modern "slasher" film, including Friday THE 13TH and many others.
I think the movie tried to portray Frank as a victim of circumstance where he tries to go straight but is pulled back into crime by the bad influences around him.
I don't know when the performance was shot, or where, or who the musicians are, or what their influences were.
Sure there's cultural differences, how our countries are run, unique pop culture influences, but we're not miles apart from each other.
Give or take slight exaggeration, it portrays a clear example of the media's influences of mindless western masses to an immoral act that the majority of human instinct should be able to over power.
The story follows a red violin, an inanimate object, although at times it seemed alive to me, thru three centuries and the influences good and ill that it has on its possessors.
Clearly one of the best current directors with influences of Antonioni and Tarkovsky, he curiously reflected that his next film would be happier, curious his sure touch for the darker reaches in everyday life.
It reminded me so clearly of the classic early Warner Brothers cartoons about the fiends in the old houses on stormy nights and when you watch a movie like this, you can see the influences that inspired the great Chuck Jones.
Robert says something like "years from now when only a few of them are left we might say they're beautiful" (sorry, a 25 year old memory is not the best base for correct quoting) Christopher Petits influences of the early Wim Wenders road movies can be traced down best in " I'm Laufe der Zeit (Kings of the Road) " from 1976 - its in b/ w as well.
Researchers often dismiss questions concerning environmental influences on their experimental data by claiming that such effects “cancel out,” because their control animals are housed under the same conditions.
By contrast, military lobbying now deeply influences foreign and defense policies – witness China’s double-digit increase in defense spending and rising US arms sales in the region.
Finally, we know that how intelligent we are and how long we shall live are caused by both environmental and genetic influences.
There are experimental designs, using twins, that can find out the extent to which intelligence and mortality are linked because they share environmental and genetic influences.
Messaging from financial markets increasingly influences the Fed’s decision-making.
Here the all-powerful Tsar was key to protecting the great Russian soul from the "evil" western influences of freedom and disorder.
But, as these temporary influences fall away in the coming year, overall price inflation will begin to increase more rapidly.
Governments, they believe, are run by crooks, so tie their hands; bureaucrats are beholden to rent-seeking private agents, so ensure non-discretion and apply uniform taxes and incentives; domestic political systems cannot be trusted, so import laws and institutions from abroad; external influences are always more benign than domestic ones, so ensure maximum openness to international trade and investment; reformers have a limited "honeymoon period," so implement reforms fast.
Education influences the way people perceive the world around them, understand issues, and find solutions to their problems.
To be sure, the press is powerful in most democracies and often influences the ways in which political messages are read by the public.
However, their narrowly focused anti-drug stance strongly influences the policies and practices of member nations.
We should all be on guard against the risk of outdated influences affecting our behaviors and decisions.
Moreover, how psychiatrists treat mental illness profoundly influences how it is defined.
For a long time, those who studied the nature of life and heredity were divided into two camps: epigeneticists , who emphasized environmental influences on living organisms, and preformists , who stressed the similarities between parents and progeny.
Sharia religious law – extreme versions of which hold that conduct decriminalized in the West, such as adultery and homosexuality, is punishable by death – influences their legal codes.
Not even physicians are immune to these influences; indeed, in some cases, they actually create the bias.
Moreover, when a crisis is winding down and there are openings for moderating influences, outside intervention can prove instrumental in enforcing peace and bringing warring factions to the negotiating table.
The dark side of such certitude, however, is the way it influences how these economists engage contrary opinions.
Recognizing the ways in which she has enriched people’s thinking about difficult – and historically masculine – subjects can only be good, not only for the women she inspires, but also for the men she influences.
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