Word: copely
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...Carne's masterpiece is set in eighteenth-century France, among the clowns, thieves, actors, pickpockets and peasants. It's impossible to do justice to this film in a mere paragraph, this story of three artists (an actor, a mime, and a murderer) who love the same woman, and must cope with their passion and jealousy in startlingly different ways. Carne's characters revel in theatrics; illusion and reality smash into each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean-louis Barrault's famous, pantomimed re-enactment of an attempted pocket...
...whole thing takes an hour-and-a-half, including a 15-minute intermission and scene changes. Along with the director's rapid-fire pacing of the scenes, this insures that The Changeling won't give audiences an overdose of post-Shakespearean blank verse--which most of the actors cope well with anyway...
Stone and Carter is unable to provide the progressive policies necessary to cope with inflation, urban decline and unemployment...
According to this view, black solidarity is an immature defense mechanism for students who would rather act out than cope more effectively with reality, and a useless ritual within a diverse academic community...
...same age. He mentions, and not at great length or for the purpose of generating tears, the loss of his wife several years before and the growing-up of his children, and suddenly you see into every layer of this man, how his good-humored jabbering helps him to cope with his loneliness and reach out to others. This kind of character almost has no right to be complex; it violates all the rules of smash Broadway comedies...