crush

“It’s like hitting a bullet with a bullet,” someone says, crushing the naive notion of an impregnable “nuclear defense.”

Every character has intriguing, suppressed triggers — crushes, past lovers, mommy issues, jealousies — that would complicate how we interpret their behavior if they weren’t hidden until the end of the film.

And by the time we got to “War Pigs,” he crushed it.

But the couple accidentally hit the “on” switch, and the piano rose to the ceiling, fatally crushing Ferrozzo in the process.

They were crushed in a general election and have gone backwards since.