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It was designed to be a paranoia thriller for housewives, and as such is a callow, forgettable enterprise.
Although set in an apocalyptic future, this movie has everything 70s stamped all over it (made in 1971) including some laughable jive talk from Heston "come on, baby" but all the better for it as this was the decade of heightened paranoia, rebellion and cult factions.
It's beautiful to see the changes of Colin and Mary: He learns to be more confident and less pessimist, changing the paranoia of being all the time confined in his bedroom because of 'spores', to go to the garden and try to walk again.
It is one of my personal favorites due to its brilliantly conceived plot of gang versus police, replete with paranoia and deceit.
The Parallel stories show how similar the paranoia about terrorism is around the world even in countries as different as America and China, and that certain about you and bad luck in todays world can land you in that situation.
The abuses endured by these characters are atrocious shouldn't the people involved have been looking for real terrorist since it was obvious these people were most likely innocent people caught up in the post 9/11 paranoia.
'Silkwood' the movie doesn't give us the glib conclusions of a conspiracy thriller (it refrains from giving an opinion on her cause of death), but it does give an excellent portrait of life at the bottom, and the mounting sense of claustrophobia and paranoia that accompanied Karen's perilous voyage of discovery.
The atmosphere of coldness, emptiness, isolation and the resulting paranoia are captured perfectly.
There is something under the melting ice... is it nature taking revenge on man, is it ghosts, is it just the paranoia of the crew turning on each other or is it seeping gas from the ground causing hallucinations like the ecological adviser of the team suspects??
If you're a hardcore Heinlein freak, don't bother with "Puppet Masters" -- it'll only break your heart -- but if you're a fan of extremely goofy, preposterous sci-fi nonsense, run out and rent it today, grab a couple of your more cheese-tolerant buddies and a couple of six packs, and settle in for a couple of hours of goo, ACTING!!, clumsily depicted paranoia, and some gut-busting laughs.
I was hoping for a classic late 70's paranoia film in the mold of The Parallax View and similar films of that era.
Released at the height of America's nuclear disaster paranoia, "Silkwood" is one of those blue-collar one-against-the-many films that revolve around simple folk fighting corporate power and abuse as best they know how.
Chronicling the true-life story of Frank Serpico, a police officer who exposed corruption in the NYPD, the film comes from that exquisite golden age of cinema, lasting from the late '60s through the late '70s, when paranoia infected the country and our most trusted and honored institutions were becoming suspect.
He wears his paranoia on his sleeve and his nerves get the best of him.
To avoid both, the Tories will need to get past their paranoia and make their next government – possibly involving a formal agreement with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party – a sustainable arrangement.
He suffers from what author Ian Hughes has recently called “a disordered mind,” filled with hate, paranoia, and narcissism.
Those who received only THC had a significant increase in paranoid thoughts, psychotic symptoms, and memory impairment, while those who received the combination experienced no paranoia, had fewer psychotic symptoms, and maintained memory function.
The Kim family’s tyranny is based on a mixture of ideological fanaticism, vicious realpolitik, and paranoia.
But the power of the Kim cult, as well as the paranoia that pervades the North Korean regime, has a political history that goes back much further than 1945.
Indeed, paranoia about US imperialism is part of the cult of independence.
Without this orchestrated paranoia, the Kims have no legitimacy.
One can call this paranoia, but it is not completely irrational.
Nuclear Weapons in Civil War ZonesLOS ANGELES – The recent failed military coup in Turkey has produced instability, paranoia, and a crackdown on the regime’s perceived opponents, including many journalists.
For if Russia’s anti-Western paranoia continues and the Kremlin’s Eurasian fantasy of allying with China lasts another 10-15 years, Russia will end up seeing China swallowing its Far East and Siberia.
Others argued that terrorists were all victims of clinical paranoia or some other psychosis.
With so many "different" names bestriding society, it is no surprise that some Russians, reared on the endemic paranoia of communism, smelled a conspiracy.
Second, political paranoia is rising on the German right: everybody supposedly just wants Germany’s money; our Anglo-Saxon partners' real aim is to weaken us; and the financial markets will not rest until Germany has invested all of its wealth and has thus endangered its economic success.
In his book Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, the British journalist David Aaronovitch has described this political paranoia as a kind of voodoo of our social media age.
That is no excuse for paranoia and repression, but just because the Party has outlasted predictions of its demise does not mean that it has no Achilles heel.
In the United States, a fetid paranoia has taken hold, with the white supremacist aggression in Charlottesville, Virginia over the August 12 weekend – where a peaceful counter-protester was killed and many were injured – just the latest manifestation.
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