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...plotline is so secondary to the action that Jarmusch doesn't even bother to explain how the threesome escapes from their swamp-bound prison. The setting is just a convenient way for putting three strange people in the same room for a long time, just as Jarmusch did in his first film, Stranger than Paradise. In Paradise, the long pauses and spaced-out banality of the dialogue was so odd that it quickly became funny, similar to what might happen while watching 200 laundry detergent commercials in a row. Jarmusch dishes out more of the same in Law, only with...
...bother to film Verdi's Otello if you are going to omit its most famous aria, the haunting Willow Song, thus reducing Desdemona to a walk-on? Director Franco Zeffirelli never quite answers that question. The flamboyant Italian's 1983 cinematic version of La Traviata widened the opera's scope with tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino...
...child -- is that character no longer is related to destiny. If a community cares only for that sinister cliche the bottom line, then there is no community pressure on individuals to behave fairly and honorably. In a world of bottom lines, why should anyone -- say a child -- bother to improve a soul...
...things really bother me about such language. One of these is the abuse of the word "like," which with the exception of similes and expressions of mild affection, should not be used. It seems to me that people use it when they can't like, you know, think of any like adjectives...
...nice idea, but badly organized. At this point, I simply don't care anymore. Next time, don't bother inviting...