WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? They might if they're fans of Ricci, Justin Timberlake, who has a supporting role, or if they like Samuel L. Upon hearing that Rae has been abused and then, that she's living with a black man, he charges off in search of vengeance, against Gill and Lazarus. Ronnie comes home early, when the military discharges him (he has his own illness, meaning that he has panic attacks). Still, she's among people who mean her no harm, and so she comes to trust Lazarus, even to love him as a kind of father figure. One night he takes her to a blues club where he performs and she drinks and dances very lewdly. Their time together - several days - involves fierce arguments, Rae's attempted escapes, some medicine (Lazarus gets a syrup from the local pharmacy, and flirts with Angela ), and Lazarus' singing. And so Lazarus chains her to his radiator. As she's unable to control her sexual urges, he reasons, her range of motion must be limited. He finds her the next morning at the end of his driveway, takes her inside, and decides to 'cure' her. This is where Lazarus' and Rae's paths cross. After they have sex with her on a football field, she gets a ride home from Ronnie's best friend Gill (MICHAEL RAYMOND JAMES), who beats her unconscious and leaves her on the road to die.

While she has a regular tryst set up with Tehronne (DAVID BANNER), she runs into trouble when she meets a group of young men at a bar and drinks herself into oblivion. Now, when Rae is upset, she begins to shudder and moan, then seeks out the nearest man in order to have sex. Worse, Rae suffers from a severe form of nymphomania, because (shadowy flashbacks insinuate) she was abused as a child. Though he says he's enlisted in order to secure their future, she fears he'll never come back. But his sense of abandonment is nothing compared to Rae's (CHRISTINA RICCI), who is devastated when her National Guardsman boyfriend Ronnie (JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) leaves for training, en route to Iraq. JACKSON) starts to drink heavily and literally sing the blues. PLOT: Upset when his wife leaves him, Lazarus (SAMUEL L.

QUICK TAKE: Drama: When a farmer finds a young white woman beaten and unconscious, he sets out to save her from herself, by chaining her to his radiator so she must stop seeking solace in sex with strangers.

There are also specialized terms for other snake families, like viperine for viperish, pythonic for pythonlike, and elapine for sea-snakes.(2007) (Samuel L. The word is of ancient pedigree, coming to us from Latin colubrinus for snake, and having cognates in neighboring languages, like Spanish culebra. In non-specialist use, colubrine is a more general term than that, one simply meaning “snaky” (itself a fine word), as the provided citation above illustrates. Of the nature of the Coluber or snake: applied to serpents, sometimes distinguished as true colubrine and venomous colubrine snakes. This leads to the OED’s second sense for that word: Perhaps so, but only in herpetology, where a colubrine is also used substantively. The colubrine impossibility of springing off the ground at me.Ī herpetologist might argue that this term more properly applies only to the Colubridae family of snakes. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a snake or serpent snake-like.You shouldn’t expect the average unstudied English monoglot to know the word, but the OED gives as the primary sense of the adjective colubrine:

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