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–noun 

1. a spot 

or 

mottled marking, usually occurring in clusters. 



2. an animal with a mottled skin or coat. 



–adjective 

3. dappled; spotted: a dapple [horse].  



–verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 

4. to mark or become marked with spots.





　

Remember Giuseppe Tornatore, who made the overrated but harmlessly cute Cinema Paradiso, about the grumpy projectionist who made him the fabulous filmmaker he is today? Meet the filmmaker that he is today: sado-masochistic fantasist, exploiter of women, and cheesy Hitchcock imitator. 



grumpy

–adjective

surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy. 

Also, grumpish.





It doesn't help that The Unknown Woman, which traffics (I use the term in its precise sense) in hot-button topics like forced prostitution and baby-making for profit, comes sanctimoniously wrapped in a twisted tale of feminist revenge. 



sanctimonious

–adjective

making a hypocritical show 

of 

religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.  





Or that the lead actress, Russian film and television star Xenia Rappoport, is terrific as a Ukrainian ex-hooker who insinuates [herself] into an Italian family and gradually reveals herself as the housekeeper from hell. 



Pretentiously framed as a woo-woo thriller complete with aerial shots of desperate deeds on spiral staircases and the requisite surreal circus scene, The Unknown Woman is liberally [sprinkled] with soft-core bondage sequences and [dappled] with sun-lit flashbacks to happier-hooker days. 





mottle 

(to mark or diversify with spots or blotches, 斑駁是也)

In this, he's helped [immensely] by the mottl[ed] [palette] 

and over-the-shoulder intensity of Harris Savides's camerawork, which turns a shallow depth of field into existential near-panic. 

tarnish 

(to dull the luster of a metallic surface, esp. by oxidation, 氧化是也)

The scandal [tarnished] his [reputation].  

grime

(dirt, soot adhering or embedded in a surface, 表面頑垢是也)

the metropolis’s daily [grind] and ’70s [grime] 

is so well captured by director Joseph Sargent viewers practically suffer the [screeches] and the subway smells. 

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