catharsis

In the public sphere, there are countless variations on similar mediated versions of the truth, stories that provide a measure of emotional catharsis.

A reunion that began with courtesy quickly turned to catharsis, as the USC offense piled up yards and points at will for the second week in a row.

“We still have a memory in our bodies of these ceremonies that we were doing for thousands of years, when we were making a kind of catharsis with our bodies.”

So I made films to give characters catharsis and through that, myself.

But the final scenes lose their edge-of-the-seat thrill when Cregger once again intervenes with jokes in the middle of the action that last too long and distract from the third act’s emotional catharsis.