Although the film was less than successful at the box office in the wake of 9 / 11, it reached cult film status after the DVD release, inspiring numerous websites devoted to unraveling the plot twists and meanings.

In the wake of Snuff, numerous films explored the idea of snuff films, or used them as a plot device.

Purim ( Hebrew: Pûrîm " lots ", from the word pur, related to Akkadian pūru ) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther ( Megillat Esther ).

Beside differences in tone, the most notable differences in the plot is that, in Basile's version, the sleep did not stem from a curse, but was prophesied ; that the king did not wake Talia from the sleep with a kiss, but raped her, and when she gave birth to two children, one sucked on her finger, drawing out the piece of flax that had put her to sleep, which woke her ; and that the woman who resented her and tried to eat her and her children was not the king's mother but his jealous wife.

The Communist regime in the USSR pursued what could be characterised as ambivalent policies towards Jews and Jewish culture, at times supporting their development as a national culture ( e. g., sponsoring significant Yiddish language scholarship and creating an autonomous Jewish territory in Birobidzhan ), at times pursuing antisemitic purges, such as that in the wake of the so-called Doctors ' plot.

On August 10, 2006, in the wake of an alleged terror plot foiled in London, President Bush described the war on terror as a war against " Islamic fascists ".

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

On 23 June 1936, in the wake of the collapse of League efforts to restrain Italy's war against Abyssinia, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the House of Commons that collective security had

On June 8, 2003 a failed coup attempt was made against President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya by forces unhappy with his imprisonment of Islamic leaders in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq and his establishment of full diplomatic relations with Israel.

Oman closed the Israeli Trade Office in October 2000 in the wake of public demonstrations against Israel during the Second Intifada.

Friction between Athens and Peloponnesian states, including Sparta, began early in the Pentecontaetia ; in the wake of the departure of the Persians from Greece, Sparta attempted to prevent the reconstruction of the walls of Athens ( without the walls, Athens would have been defenseless against a land attack and subject to Spartan control ), but was rebuffed.

In the wake of Nur ad-Din's death, Saladin faced a difficult decision ; he could move his army against the Crusaders from Egypt or wait until invited by as-Salih in Syria to come to his aid and launch a war from there.

The work was written in the wake of pogroms against Jews following the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II of Russia.

As the rider edges towards the wake against the pull of the rope, the rider builds pressure against the water on the bottom of the board and gains speed and momentum toward the wake.

( For example, oil was a factor in Japan's decision to go to war against the United States in 1941, and the oil cartel, OPEC, used an oil embargo of sorts in the wake of the Yom Kippur War in the 1970s ).

** Cable 243: In the wake of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the Kennedy administration orders the US Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in South Vietnam, opening the way towards a coup against Diem.

The wake of the pace-car reduced the aerodynamic drag against which Rompelberg pedalled to almost zero.

Since the events of September 11, 2001, American Muslims have participated in the Pilgrimage to promote and increase awareness of civil rights protections in the wake of widespread suspicions harbored against them in the post 9 / 11 world.

Historically, support for modern multiculturalism stems from the changes in Western societies after World War II, in what Susanne Wessendorf calls the " human rights revolution ", in which the horrors of institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing became almost impossible to ignore in the wake of the Holocaust ; with the collapse of the European colonial system, as colonized nations in Africa and Asia successfully fought for their independence and pointed out the racist underpinnings of the colonial system ; and, in the United States in particular, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, which criticized ideals of assimilation that often led to prejudices against those who did not act according to Anglo-American standards and which led to the development of academic ethnic studies programs as a way to counteract the neglect of contributions by racial minorities in classrooms.

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

The majority of his party, most notably Roman Catholics and trade union representatives, was bitterly opposed to this, especially in the wake of the British government's reprisals against the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916.

Franz Pfeiffer attempted to found it again in 1983 in the wake of a wave of prostest against the Pinochet regime.

In the wake of Aristotle's Poetics ( 335 BCE ), tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions, whether at the scale of poetry in general ( where the tragic divides against epic and lyric ) or at the scale of the drama ( where tragedy is opposed to comedy ).

Patel now energetically fought against veth — the forced servitude of Indians to Europeans — and organised relief efforts in wake of plague and famine in Kheda.

They had lost their best players two years before, when they fled in the wake of the failed uprising against the communist regime.

The WWF hit a low point in the wake of allegations of steroid abuse and distribution made against it in 1994 ; there were also allegations of sexual harassment made by WWF employees.

To consolidate and advance his own position in the NSDAP, Himmler took advantage of the disarray in the party following Hitler's arrest in the wake of the Beer Hall Putsch.

In response to Hitler's plans to invade Poland, Heydrich re-formed the Einsatzgruppen to travel in the wake of the German armies.

This near-total humiliation of Germany in the wake of World War I-as the treaty placed sole blame for the war on the nation-laid the groundwork for a pride-hungry German people to embrace Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Fearing for his life in the wake of a revolt in Tibet in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India where he has led a government in exile since.

The Dead Sea temporarily comes to life in the wake of rainy winters.

We need to experience " death consciousness " so as to wake up ourselves as to what is really important ; the authentic in our lives which is life experience, not knowledge.

His mother had been ill with tuberculosis his entire life ; upon learning that she had entered a coma from which she was not expected to wake, he, for reasons that are not clear, walked out to his car and shot himself in the head.

Elmore Leonard, every day I wake up and – not to be morbid or anything, although morbid is my life to a degree – don't see his obituary in the paper, I think to myself, " Great!

The Triassic began in the wake of the Permian – Triassic extinction event, which left the Earth's biosphere impoverished ; it would take well into the middle of the period for life to recover its former diversity.

According to Hogan, this would result in behavior that members of his family would never exhibit in real life, as when his son, Nick tossed water balloons at neighbors from a window, or when his wife would wake up early to apply makeup and do her hair before camera crews arrived to film shots of the couple sleeping.

In 1893 Arthur's way of life as a married, middling archaeologist, puttering around the Ashmolean, and travelling extensively and perpetually on holiday with his beloved Margaret, came to an abrupt end, leaving emotional devasatation in its wake and changing the course of his life.

Sergei Prokofiev too found his musical language increasingly restricted in the years after his permanent return to the Soviet Union in 1935 ( especially in the wake of the 1948 Zhdanov Decree ), although he continued to compose until the end of his life five years later.

The mourners at his wake become rowdy, and spill whiskey over Finnegan's corpse, causing him to come back to life and join in the celebrations.

As whiskey, the " water of life ", causes both Finnegan's death and resurrection in the ballad, so the word " wake " also represents both a passing ( into death ) and a rising ( from sleep ).

The Sweet Hereafter is a multiple first person narrative depicting life in a small town in Upstate New York in the wake of a terrible school bus accident in which numerous local children are killed.

I'd wake up having nightmares ... I had " Peace " written on my wall and I went around giving the peace sign, but I didn't experience peace in my life.

In the wake of the famine, many thousands of poor farmers emigrated to seek a better life in America and elsewhere.

Harlan correctly predicted the consequences of this decision: it put an end to the attempts by Radical Republicans to ensure the civil rights of blacks and ushered in the widespread segregation of blacks in housing, employment and public life that confined them to second-class citizenship throughout much of the United States until the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement.

In the wake of the purge, he took the personal oath of loyalty to Hitler that Blomberg introduced, although he later said: " No other oath in my whole life was such a heavy burden as the one I had to swear to Hitler.

On every morning that you wake up for the rest of your life you will be ashamed of what you did last night.

Upon his return, Zogolli became involved in the political life of the fledgling Albanian government that had been created in the wake of the First World War.

It sees waking life as an illusion, from which we have to wake up, just as we recognize dreams to be illusions.

Florida Governor Lawton Chiles explained her impact, saying, " Marjory was the first voice to really wake a lot of us up to what we were doing to our quality of life.

Especially in the wake of the computer age, and the rise of Computer art and Digital art the nature and definition of still life has changed.

At George's wake, Giulietta gives a eulogy celebrating George's unconventionality and his belief in living life to the fullest.