Word: overexplain
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...Lowdown Any reader knows he's in trouble when the author finds it necessary to earnestly overexplain the book's title. Shadows at Dawn, in this case, is meant to refer not only to the hour the massacre took place but to the "murky, often elusive nature of historical truth," while "Borderlands" refers both to the contested area separating the U.S. and Mexico and also to the demarcation between "history and storytelling...
While Tarbox tends to overexplain herself, leaving little room for nuance, Katie.com is nonetheless an impressive work that reveals not just the danger of online pedophilia but also the tormented psyche of a young teen who seemed to have it all. Although Kufrovich eventually spent 18 months in jail, Tarbox remained racked with guilt about turning him in. It was only her even stronger guilt over not telling the truth that led her to admit to the molestation. In a classic case of blaming the victim, Tarbox was then characterized by her family, friends and town as a promiscuous teen...
...Strike and Rocco. The former is wary, sullen and perhaps more ambivalent about his work than he dares to admit. The latter is bustling, voluble and perhaps more sympathetic toward Strike--with everyone trying to survive in this milieu--than he cares to admit. Clockers is careful not to overexplain these figures. Director Spike Lee, who shares screenplay credit with novelist Richard Price, lets Phifer (in his first film role) and Keitel (in his umpty-umpth) find the characters, which they do with unimprovable unpredictability...
...buff gives The Hunt for Red October solid dramatic tension. Still, this obviously could have been a movie in which a lot of people stood around talking in tight spaces; in other words, a movie that refused to move. But screenwriters Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart do not overexplain (or underexplain) either its technology or the intricacies of its far-darting plot. We know all we need to know to keep our bearings and not a monosyllable more. And director John McTiernan does not fall too much in love with any scene, character or gadget. He has judged his material...
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