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Shyamalan effectively manipulates camera angles, perspective and the use of silence to create tension, but seems unsure about when to take his storyline seriously. Some of the film's most comic lines come at scenes with the most drama and the laughter in the theater disturbs the somber mood, while many short scenes seem tangential at best. The acting in the movie, including Robin Wright Penn and Spencer Treat Clark as Dunn's wife and son, is solid and the movie is technically impressive despite its holes in coherence...
...this dysfunction the video illustrates what makes comedy: the suffering and tragedy of comedians and their ability to transform their personal struggles and awkwardness into laughter. In one scene, Tim sits huddled in a booth at a bar with a few comics, testing new material and firing jokes back and forth at each other. They appear like a group of loners, neither fawned over by women nor paid any particular attention by anyone, just poking fun at themselves, their condition and the situations they encounter. It is there, in those moments, that Gilman uncovers the essence of humor, that...
...will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer, frightens a nun so badly she plunges down a deep elevator shaft - producing, in most cinemas, a hearty round of laughter...
...networks again declared Florida, and thus the nation, too close to call. Tom Brokaw was caught munching a cracker on camera and burst out into uncontrollable laughter along with the rest of the NBC studio. The anchors are punch-drunk, and so am I. A bleary-eyed election official looks like she's about to collapse into the camera on ABC. "We're not exactly sure what quite to do next," said Peter Jennings. You said it, Petey...
...Gore is so nice," he said to the audience's laughter...