taciturn

Anyone who likes this kind of pulp knows these avenging angel characters are more or less the same: intense, taciturn, minimalist.

Later that day, the couples go out for a rather awkward dinner, where the men are taciturn and grumpy and the women gab away.

In a mountainous village of post-war Italy, a taciturn Sicilian soldier hides out after deserting the army.

“The Order” is about these two taciturn men coming face to face, told with a pared-down tension that, decades ago, made stars out of actors like Charles Bronson.

In this, the writers find a bottomless trove of understanding for everyone, including Lee’s Koh who could easily press his taciturn flintiness in a sinister direction.