Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half was good example of this. When the Crimson was playing at its peak, the game was a laughter...
...Shallow Grave" seeks to describe greed, but contains no real character analysis, and no profound insights into why ordinary people would behave like animals in the pursuit of a suitcase full of money. Boyle's final shot is haunted by the maniacal laughter of a flatmate as blood runs over the image of Queen Elizabeth's face on a bank note. It makes the viewer wonder if "Shallow Grave's" gory pandemonium is a big, shallow joke...
What makes it all so entertaining is the actors' very apparent enjoyment of the stage madness. Their repeated attempts at stifling their own laughter add to the audience's pleasure. You cannot help but laugh along with them in this stand-up act with a plot...
Patrick Shea, as the horrendously over-sexed (and flamboyantly gay) hairdresser Tony Whitcomb, simply cracks you up. He delivers his punchlines with deadly accuracy and leaves everyone, including the actors, incapacitated with laughter...
...hate reading about other people who thought they were Jo," Ozick said, Provoking laughter among the crowd...