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It's true that he's drawn to machinery, but his favorite devices are typewriters and accordions and siphons--nonthreatening mechanisms that lack the depersonalizing, menacing quality of, say, Fritz Lang's nightmarish film Metropolis . Although Léger was a Communist, with pronounced sympathy for the working man, his experience of factory conditions apparently was limited to what he'd heard from his fellow card-playing soldiers.
We can see that Kristina is living a life of nightmarish deprivation, and getting the only kind of pleasure that she knows.
The aftermath of such an agreement may prove to be almost as nightmarish as what came before."
As nightmarish as the Corleones' lives came to be, there was still something seductive about being taken under the wings of expansive father figures with few uncertainties about what they were put on this earth to do.
Woolf provides a nightmarish echo to Mrs. Dalloway in Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves), an ex-soldier who has had the misfortune of witnessing a buddy being blown to bits in front of his eyes.