Word: melodrama
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...solves the problem. Check. Look, if you're really interested, just watch the trailer, which reveals all the film's major points, including the ending. Clocking in at a little over sixty seconds, catching the previews will save you one hour and fifty-nine minutes of teeth-grating, painful melodrama...
Last week disparate pieces fell together, locked in place, and, suddenly, abstract controversies were framed in a comprehensible melodrama: a mother's search for justice, a city's battle against crime, the skin colors of power and powerlessness, the politics of outrage, the ambitions of a First Lady and a mayor--as well as the men who would be President. With the numbing beat of 24 not-guilty verdicts, racial profiling, police brutality, the rights of minorities and the promises of the Constitution were funneled into a compelling narrative. A different but equally riveting tale is unfolding in Los Angeles...
...that Bloodflowers may be the Cure's oft-threatened last album, it seems that this droning noise could possibly be the sound of ancient gothy New Wavers finally boring themselves to death. As a Cure fan, I show no restraint in tapping my inner reservoirs of bitterness, misery and melodrama to moan: believe me, it's that bad. The End is Near (But Not Yet) seems to be the principle theme of the obsessively fatal and needlessly long 5 to 11 minute whiners on this album. Smith mopes about "The Last Day of Summer," the fact that love always ends...
...except that, three or four years ago, I saw a little French film from the 1960s called The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The idea for the film sounds a little strange when I tell it: a love story that's also a French musical and a slice-of-life melodrama in old Hollywood style. I was a little hesitant to make my first "movie love" rave a French film--it just seems so pretentious. But, well, so it's French. So kill me. Of course there is something a little off about talking about a French movie to talk about...
...Have you heard of Wilkie Collins? He was a contemporary of Charles Dickens, he was sort of a melodrama man. He wrote these amazing cliffhanger novels, like The Woman in White and Moonstone, which I think are brilliant. I don't think they're necessarily that influential but they really fire up the imagination...