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There is no real plot. The main character, Angela (Mimi Schultz) is a bored nine-to-fiver with an active fantasy life. Her fantasies, of a grass skirted shaman (Jon Shanker), of a gourmet-loving CIA agent (Michael Montoya), of Angela's mother (Zoe Sarnat) in a space-suit and of a liaison between the delivery boy (Damien Reynolds) and Angela's gay coworker (Neil Farnsworth) make up the bulk of the play's activity. The rest of the play features Angela slumped lifelessly at her desk or in bed while a voice-over drones on about her unfulfilling life...
Considering the plot limitations, good characterizing details should have been one of the strengths of Life After God. But too many of the characters blur together. The child in "Little Creatures" lies animals and Count Chocula. The father is vaguely dissatisfied. This is really all we know by the end of the story...
Welles' narration technique set a standard for all films to follow; anyone who believes that "Pulp Fiction" was the first film with a nonlinear plot should take a front row seat at the Brattle on Monday night. The film is told, in present and past, as a quest for the elusive element that drove him through his triumphs and to his downfall. The only clue is Kane's dying word, "a piece in a jigsaw puzzle": "Rosebud...
There are many reasons Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941) is widely regarded to be the greatest film of all time. To watch it is to relive your favorite cinema moments; every scene, every plot turn, every camera angle has influenced countless filmmakers. But the pleasure of watching, or rewatching, "Citizen Kane" is not derived solely from an appreciation of its technique. The greatest films tell great stories, and Kane's, like that of Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard," is an absorbing tale of ambition and loss...
...happy to report that your secret plot to systematically take over Harvard University through the Windows '95 beta program is going better than expected. At last count, nearly 150 Harvard undergraduates are under the influence of Microsoft's latest and greatest operating system, with more potential indoctrinates coming "on-line" every...