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However, there is also a strain of bad acting which pops up in Roberto Zucco—a strain seemingly founded on the principle that a character??s emotional life is able to be shown entirely through changes in vocal volume. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen a play or movie that is marred by this kind of catatonic work. I don’t think that there is any one reason why it’s such a pervasive problem. Sometimes it’s because the actor is untalented, sometimes...
...fact, charges of Spanish appeasement are concerned less with policy shifts than with the rationale behind them. Conservative pundits are really out to make a point about national character??namely that ours is stronger than Spain’s, and the rest of Europe’s too, for that matter. As Brooks wrote last Tuesday, “today more than any other, it really does appear that Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus.” The gender coding here is no accident—we manly Americans would never have folded like those...
Unfortunately, these small surprises are negated by a shoddily disguised “surprise” villain revelation. This character??s villainy is painstakingly obvious, based on the film’s previews and the common sense that this particular actor wasn’t hired to stand around looking frumpy...
...consider myself a somewhat sensitive person, I have to become very distanced from the guy being beaten if the aspect I concentrate on is the aggressor’s technique: it surprised me how little I cared about this character??s life. I am not being callous, but there are three fatal flaws that damage the film for nonbelievers: almost no characterization or narrative, a spectacularly large amount of violence and almost all of the Jews are evil Christ-killers...
...knows his way around romantic rejection, his latest goes for the emotional jugular. A surreal, 108-minute look into a grimily futuristic process that medically excises the memory of a nasty breakup and the relationship it ended, Sunshine takes place for the most part within Carrey’s character??s psyche...