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The word “catharsis” is used often in the movie Run Amok, which just debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film uses it in a meta sense, describing one character’s complicated goal in the movie, but also uses it so incessantly as to somewhat hypnotize the audience: What you’re watching may be difficult, confusing, or strange, but we are telling that you that it is going to make you feel an emotional relief…just in case you were doubting it based on what you were watching.
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