Word: cliches
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...Polumbaum's approach - letting her subjects speak for themselves - appears to be the one now needed most. After putting her interviewees into context with a concise introduction, she simply lets each one recount their own story in a dedicated chapter, resisting the temptation to analyze and conclude, and eschewing clichés such as the prediction that the free market will break down censorship entirely. What results is an unadorned snapshot of a moment in Chinese media, both intimate and unusual...
...What was rushing though her mind? "So many things," Finch says, leaning against a fence outside the Fengtai Softball Stadium, teammates and their families consoling each other behind her. Some of her comrades had already talked about no regrets, giving their all, 110%, a cadre of painful clichés. But about two hours after the game, the most famous softball player in history was ready to share the true pain...
This much about the film is not true: just about everything I haven't already mentioned. The director, Randall Miller, and his screenwriters exercise an apparently irresistible urge to turn a curious little historical footnote into a tangled vineyard of clichés. Does Barrett have a slacker son (Chris Pine), who needs to learn responsibility? Check. Is there a comely intern named Sam (Rachel Taylor) for him to fall in love with? Double check. Does he have a rival for his affections in Gustavo (Freddy Rodriquez), who also happens to be a promising (and very soulful) vintner himself? Triple...
...mode. (CRUNCH! because he's smashed two adjacent vehicles trying to make his getaway.) In his panic he dropped the marijuana cigarette he was toking - evidence that sends Ted and his gang tearing after Saul. The rest of the picture is a bunch of knowing, giggly riffs on action clichés in the hundreds of movies spawned by Lethal Weapon...
...would have been easy for Hooper to make The Tall Man a simple story of apparent injustice, to portray Doomadgee - with whose lawyers and family she spent a great deal of time - as a wholly likable victim and Hurley as a thug. Always, however, she favors nuance over cliché, context over judgment. The book's title is partly a reference to Hurley, a 2-m-tall career cop who had been decorated for bravery and eschewed comfortable postings for trouble spots like Palm Island, a former open-air Aboriginal jail where "the heat attacks like a swarm of insects...