Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I expected everyone to be boring," she continues. "You know, the glasses-and-books type. But there's a big variety. People are really interesting."
Then, Illsley hastened to explain, "It's had its day, that sort of thing. Very boring. This is a film, you know, with a plot. We considered videotape but the people using film use it with a bit more sensitivity."
The camera zeroes in on Simon's face for minutes at a time as he is sweating on stage, crying in the arms of his estranged wife, shaving, rolling a joint, driving, taking a bath (twice), and reflecting (countless times) with mellow but righteous indignation on the sorry state of...
Like the music, the story is vague, aimless, and often downright boring. None of the issues in Jonah's life takes on much significance. Nothing can be moving in a film where the dialogue proceeds on stilts:
In fact, these people with their sometimes boring, occasionally self-serving ruminations and reminiscences are not characters in the conventional sense. They are instruments through which Ingmar Bergman, employing the device of an "investigator," who is mostly an offscreen voice, contemplates an enigma much larger than the causes of a...