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It deals with various taboos, and foul motives.
Village and the villagers are so real that you get the impression as if you are watching a documentary about Turkish villages at the same time, showing the lifestyle, language, costumes, architecture, traditions, taboos and everything in a very lean way.
Naw... make that TOTALLY cross the line with depicting extremely explicit violence and gore, breaking many American film taboos.
Say what you like about this truly nasty movie, it broke a huge number of societal taboos and went many places other directors feared to go.
A few movies that, in their own context, were so valuable, they broke taboos, they spit in the face of that society because the future was coming.
"Cauldron of Death" is incredibly fast-paced and, surprisingly enough, the script dissociates itself from all the feared clichés and taboos.
Those taboos will make you see horrible things that happens in everyday's life around the globe.
Its maker, Howard Hughes, however, did intend it to violate silly taboos on the exhibition of females in film; the result is a movie than is fun, very attractively photographed and choreographed and a fine entertainment.
They wanted to talk about some sexual taboos but then they distracted to some other topics by bringing in some utterly bogus plots.
There are ancient taboos on the use of “poison or plague” as weapons or for warfare, and doing so has long been stigmatized in many cultures and prohibited by customary international law and international treaties.
The taboo is the companion to the sacred: that which we regard as sacred we protect with taboos.
Cynics might say that marches cannot change engrained social taboos.
Today’s Counter-EnlightenmentNot long ago, one might have concluded that, at least in Europe, there were no taboos left.
This is the context in which we may see the invasion of Islamic taboos into the enlightened, mostly non-Islamic world.
From the fatwa on Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses to the killing of a nun in Somalia in response to Pope Benedict’s Regensburg lecture and the Berlin Opera’s cancellation of a performance of Mozart’s Idomeneo , with its severed heads of religious founders, including Muhammad, we have seen violence and intimidation used to defend a particular religion’s taboos.
Fox has said that he is willing to break with old Mexican taboos, but the Bush administration has never taken him up on it.
True, historical taboos and a booming economy have so far prevented popular discontent from surging into the corridors of power.
Indeed, they questioned his right to wish for a much-needed change in the way the Muslim world treats women and a reexamination of its sexual taboos.
Venezuela’s recovery depends on its capacity to translate the current catastrophe into a set of new social norms of the form: “never again shall we…”It wouldn’t be the first time in Latin America that new taboos rose from economic ruins.
A new arrangement might involve more spending at the EU level and overcoming old German taboos against a “transfer union.”
But they disagree about when these taboos are violated.
Verification provisions for the Biological Weapons Convention are weak (merely reporting to the UN Security Council), and such taboos did not prevent the Soviet Union from continuing to possess and develop biological weapons in the 1970s.
Normative taboos may also become relevant in the cyber realm, though here the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon depends on intent, and it would be difficult to forbid – and impossible to prohibit reliably – the design, possession, or even implantation for espionage of particular computer programs.
With previous presumptions, biases, and taboos having been erased, it may be possible to create something better.
Is it risky to break taboos?
But Brazilians may feel that they have already broken enough political barriers and taboos in recent years, and that Silva would represent one too many.
Breaking these taboos need not mean returning to the high tax rates, inflation, and dependency culture of the 1970s.
Multiplying initiatives, being everywhere at once, accelerating the pace of reforms at the risk of confusing quality and quantity, breaking taboos, and blurring the lines between secularism and religion, Sarkozy has reinforced lingering doubts about a brilliant politician’s ability to become a statesman or at least an effective ruler.
Overcoming historic biases requires questioning an industry’s taboos.
Executives should make special efforts to break taboos, examine unchallenged assumptions, and question their businesses’ most sacred rules.
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