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The characters are not afflicted with speechifying; silences allow the viewer to enter into the spaces between them, and to let their experience echo with one’s own.

The sector was partially afflicted by new worries about loans by regional banks, tied to comments made by Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, earlier this week.

But it also suggests they’re taking care to step right — not in order to avoid trouble because self-censorship is not a curse that seems to have ever afflicted them — but to fine-tune their case.

The individual afflicted feels guilt, shame and anger, but ultimately, and perhaps more important, feels — and is — objectively helpless to do anything about it.

The topic led “Fox & Friends” co-host Laurence Jones to say that billions of dollars have been spent on programs to care for the homeless and mentally ill but many of those afflicted resist help.