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In the Washington Post , Susan Cheever questions the "understanding" the Dickeys reach at book's end, as does Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times, who claims "the book offers incomplete catharsis."
For the record, I'm basically against the death penalty on the grounds that its application is discriminatory, mistaken executions of innocent people are inevitable, keeping people on death row for years during the appeal process amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, yet limiting appeals is even worse, there's no evidence that executions have any practical deterrent effect, and emotional catharsis is not a good enough reason for the state to kill people.
has neither the style of Strictly Ballroom nor the cheap catharsis of Dirty Dancing . But the clunkiness is director Masayuki Suo's way of stopping to make sure that he's emotionally accurate.
It's the sound of genuine catharsis, of poison being expelled into the air, of bottomless anguish and joyous liberation.
There's no such thing as catharsis: Come once, you'll want to come again and again and again.