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...rise built specially for the short-statured: the rent is great but the ceilings are barely five feet tall. Though watching Cusack stoop down and stumble around the office hallways is funny, the film knows how dull these sorts of gags could become, and puns lamely on the "low overhead" of the floor enough to make the lameness itself the joke. Fundamentally, Charlie Kaufman's offbeat screenplay is less interested in visual punning than in sickly toying with the characters themselves...
...domain is potentially perilous. As the agile Taiwanese woman leads visitors through a cluttered site in suburban Taipei, she warns them to watch out for jagged steel and rusted pipes. But she doesn't seem too nervous about the crane that swings a ton of scrap metal just overhead...
...walk into the place any time after two in the afternoon, however, the effect is draining. A smattering of undergraduates populate the stark, barren environment. The wan overhead lights complement the sterile decor, partitions inexplicably blocking off entire sections of tables from one another. A gov TF trudges in, seats himself on an unforgiving plastic chair and waits alone for students to visit his office hours, though none ever do. Restaurant workers peer forlornly out from the one open counter, looking in vain for someone, anyone to serve. It's like you've set foot...
...observation shown in his book, I'm sure he did, he didn't comment. He's much too polite for that. We sit in a vinyl booth, at a table covered in red Formica, underneath a wall filled with photographs of the BU football team while electric fans hum overhead. Two burly Boston cops sit in the booth behind ours, shouting at the short order cook in a Boston accent worthy of a Jordan's Furniture commercial. Their noise does not drown out the precise, thoughtful speech and South African accent of Mr. Morris, however, and somehow the two tables...
...ADVANTAGE] Lower overhead like rent...