Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this even in his naming of her without a real name but only an initial. Susman shows the skeptical, yet innocent and naive side to the character as best as is possible with such a fraction of a human being. To Mamet Miss A. exists only as a plot structure to instigate the play. What we learn about her is mere hearsay and projection from John, which we do not know whether we should believe...
...result is an honest and often hilarious discussion of the plot (the sort of discussion someone would have during the commercial breaks of a good movie on T.V.) juxtaposed with the symbolic representation of the actions which have taken place in the storyline. The result is a talking picture book of images and vioces which makes the documentary style of the film even more original...
...girlfriend, with whom I saw "The Lion King" remarked that she was disappointed by the lack of a dominant romantic plot. "There wasn't any kissing!" she said after I told her how much I enjoyed the movie...
With its semisnazzy repartee and would-be ebullience, I Love Trouble strains for the style of the grand old movies (the Thin Man capers, the Tracy-Hepburn comedies Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike, half a dozen Hitchcocks) from which it borrows plot, dialogue and ambiance. But style is a Hollywood commodity even rarer these days than a pretty woman. Films don't breeze; they wheeze. Directors aren't pastry chefs anymore; they are construction foremen. Watching I Love Trouble, you can see the erection of a new Julia Roberts statue. The monument is eye-catching but bland...
Despite its harried plot what does make "Wolf" mildly entertaining is what Will's transformation does for him. Before he had been an average guy with a wife who plowed away at his job without any real gumption or nerve. His transformation makes him commit violent, gory acts of killing which he doesn't remember, but in his conscious life he channels his energy to make himself young again...