Thanatosis—also known as death-feigning and, we argue more appropriately, tonic immobility (TI)—is an under-reported but fascinating anti-preda
Death-feigning (also called tonic immobility [TI]) is defined as a specific immobile defensive state elicited during the later stage of the attack sequence of predation events. Although TI has long been of interest to biologists, there is little research on its function. In general, the study...
William Friedkin’s CRUISING returns to the queer territory after his sturdy cinematic adaption of THE BOY IN THE BAND (1970), and Al Pacino, also knuckles down into the precious showcase of LGBTQ presentation after Sidney Lumet’s canonical DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975), this time around...
I drew a heart with my finger on one of the large panes. Something I hate about myself: my needful heart. I’ve tried a hundred ways to disguise and disfigure it: wearing all black, cutting my bangs crooked like the truly artistic women do, feigning disinterest in the world around me...
It’s why the crime that Kidane commits feels so much more sorrowful, so tragic, as compared to the ugliness and horror of the jihadists’ punishments. There’s a purposeful coldness to the sequence where a couple is stoned to death, as Sissako sees this as being outside of god’s will...
the primordial senselessness and violation of murder is explicit in a way that’s profoundly rare for mainstream action filmmaking, and this sensitivity is later affirmed by the hauntingly prolonged death of Miles Dyson (Joe Morton), a key and morally conflicted innovator of the machines that will...
“Trash” uses as narration. Rato recognizes the locker key and the trio embark on an adventure that will take them to jail, to the beautiful beaches of Brazil and to the precipice of death. Occasionally, they’ll be assisted by characters played byMartin SheenandRooney Mara, both wasted ...
death of his family on an elderly couple who fail to adequately defend themselves and are sentenced to death. Meanwhile, Judy is discovered by a group of children who carry her back to their heretic camp. It is there that a village of witches aide her and help her plot her revenge on ...
The majority of NMU is associated with no, or minor, medical effects; however, adverse medical outcomes, including death, occur in some individuals, particularly when administered by non-oral routes. Although academic and occupational performance enhancement are the most commonly cited motivations, ...
where Szczuka is hosting a hollow celebration of the war’s end and death toll. The lavishly decorated rooms and conference halls of this building clearly didn’t lose their glamor during wartime, reflective of the manner in which even Poland’s encroaching communist rule will leave a chasm bet...