Iniquity

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–noun 

1. gross injustice or wickedness.

2. a violation 

of 

right or duty; wicked act; sin. 

Origin:

1300–50; ME < L inīquitās unevenness, unfairness, equiv. to inīqu(us) uneven, unfair (in- in- ³ + -īquus, comb. form of aequus even, equal ) + -itās -ity

　

Law is no asset—looking rather sadly like John Ireland (the actor who played the 1949 Jack Burden), he has little control over his accent and zero energy. 



Drowning his conscience [in] bourbon, Burden seems less despairingly snockered most of the time than simply uninterested. A Bogartian voice of dry fatalism, Burden is both the tale's spoiled innocent and Crypt Keeper, doomily recounting the descent into iniquity, his own and everyone else's, including strategist–Stark's girl toy Sadie (Patricia Clarkson), Burden's lost childhood love Anne (Kate Winslet), and her brother Adam (Mark Ruffalo), an idealistic doctor suckered by Jack into Starkian service. 



Each suffers a dark night of the soul, or so it's implied; Zaillian seems less concerned with making the novel's intricate political machinations clear than simply filling virtually every scene with crucifixes. 



It's hard to say why Stark is on the cusp of being impeached by the state senate or why the public opinion of Jack's retired-judge stepfather (Anthony Hopkins) is a matter of political life or death that warrants a historical investigation consuming half of the film's screen time. But it's clear from the lurking crosses that there's plenty of damnation, retribution, and redemption to be dished [out] to all concerned. 





quisling

Jan’s old friend, Jacobi, proves to be a [quisling].

treacherous

perdify n.

perfidy that goe[s] unpunished.  

suffers little guilt over the perfidie[s] he commits on Willie's behalf

miasma

The film's form and purpose now [emerge] from the [miasma] of the original cut

inimical

Her opinions are inimical [to] our proposal. 

that the Amazon was truly inimical [to] humankind. 

animosity

animus, adjective

and the animosity [Americans] had for the country of [Iran]. 

anomie

also animy

a breakdown or absence of social norms and values

Despite this obsession with [urban] anomie

cf. sophrosyne

hubris

which documents the making of Fitzcarraldo, suggests that there may be equal amounts of [hubris] and [genius] in Herzog himself, and that he is in [no] small part the model for Fitzcarraldo.

snooty

snotty

snobbish

Detest