Limbo

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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    【宗】地獄的邊境

          2.    中間狀態或位置

          3.    放置丟棄物的場所

          4.    監獄





　

The film wisely has no real plot, because the paramedic's (傘降醫務人員) have no beginning or goal, but are a limbo of extended horror. 





　

Yet it's precisely devotees of the Smith universe (porn jokes, cruddy (透光不均勻的) camera angles, surprise flights of grunge eloquence, more porn jokes) who have a right to be wary of a Clerks sequel. 



Can Smith, after finding fame and fortune beyond the mini-mall parking lots of New Jersey, now successfully revive the talky, 



[dead-zone] limbo of postadolescent wage slaves whose lives are going [no]where? 



Can he recapture the store-as-movie-set authenticity of the original film? How about its innocently sacrilegious horndog wit?









　

Preacher has a long history of false starts, despite having a loyal following among geek filmmakers. Originally set-up at Kevin Smith’s View Askew with a $25 million budget and James Marsden attached as the title character, 



the project fell into [limbo] 

and

later found [light] 



as an HBO television series helmed by Mark Steven Johnson (fans were not happy about this one). 



The official plot synopsis from the graphic novel follows: "Here’s a book guaranteed to offend a bunch of people, not only because of its profuse profanity and graphic violence, but because it’s the epitome of iconoclasm. 





sacrilege 

blasphemy

Threnody



prodigal

(wastefulness, improvidence, reckless)

a prodigal [extravagance]

profuse

(overemotionalism, exageration)

profuse in his [apologies]

There's a huge, ugly [gouge] all the way up her shin, and she's [bleeding] profusely.

lavish

(generosity, openhandedness)

lavish [hospitality]

cf. ravish



orgy

an orgy of [killing]

Deluge