Word: banality
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...Love Story. Or a Graduate that leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth. Hal is no Dustin Hoffman, to be sure. He dumps cruelly on two girls who love him (Susan in Zurs and Emily in New York). His thoughts are too often too rich and too banal. (Experiences are frequently described as "nice" and "good.") He develops a minor drinking problem and it becomes a self-conscious preppie debauch...
...first New York preview, The Liberation of L.B. Jones provoked a brief fistfight between a Negro youth and a white man. This response - which could echo at theaters around the country - accurately reflects the film: frustrating, morally ugly, and in the end as banal as evil itself...
After the horror show of Vietnam atrocities and other film clipping that begin this picture, Jake is seen walking away from his own grad school degree presentation in a zombie-like trance after the ceremony has been turned into a banal sheepskin burning festival by the bearded members of the class...
...writer, Krumbachova concentrates on the details of psychological games as realized in decor and frame composition. She writes small scenarios, small in the sense that their limited worlds are closed off from the usual psychosocial references: small also in that they act out philosophical truths through seemingly banal confrontations. The Report is on a small group of guests who have been invited to a birthday party in honor of some mysterious official. On the way they are captured by the official's adopted son, Philip, and his boys, who force them to play commandante/captive games. The thoroughly bourgeois guests...
Genet and his hagiographer and fellow-playwright, Jean-Paul Sartre, have delved with varying degrees of success into problems of race warfare and prejudice. Sartre's The Respectable Prostitute is emblematic of French ideological radicalism carried to its most tiresome and banal extremes. Genct's special merit is his ability to collapse ideological confrontation into self-defeating burlesque which exhausts both characters and audience. His mythological perspective, always starkly simplistic. escapes shrill fury through an almost lyrical insistence on the superhuman labor which sustains all role-playing in the phantasy-world of theatre...