Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot, after being transferred from crayon on lined elementary school paper to disaster on celluloid by director Stephen Hopkins looks something like this: Jack Dove (Bridges) and Ryan Garrity (Jones) were IRA buddies. Garrity makes Dove unwittingly blow up a bunch of Brits and his girlfriend, who is also Garrity's little sister. Garrity goes to jail Dove heads for the Hub with a new identity courtesy of the British, who he helped in nailing Garrity...
...extends beyond the "happy ever after" to see what comes in the "after." This explosion of the traditional folk tale may be called post-modern or deconstuctionist by some, but these cocktail conversation words seem too obscure to describe what he is doing here. The subtlety of Kieslowski's plot is where the beauty of this film radiates. The viewer only realizes after the film is over the idiosyncratic nature of the events which have unfolded. They have unfolded simply and smoothly, without crash or crescendo, making the story believable. This story could not be told in some fairy tale...
...here's the plot: man is bitten by wolf he hits whole driving on a snowy night in Vermont. He doesn't think anything about it until his senses become more attuned; he can hear people whispering in other parts of his office building and has a zoom sort of vision which hones in on his "prey." Enter spoiled rich girl whose rebellious life has annoyed her publishing magnate father; falling in love with her father's newly-fired employee and soon-to-be arch enemy would be the ultimate in rebellion. There you have it: "Wolf" is one cliched...
Cataloged like this, the plot may sound like little more than anti-agitprop. And indeed The Blue Kite is by far the most excoriating depiction in Chinese film of Mao's ravages. But at its heart it is about domestic dreams, about a hope for better days that flies above the characters as brightly and vulnerably as Tietou's favorite blue kite. The rhythms of this family -- the meals and arguments, the worries about money and the sweet moments when a put- upon mom finds bliss playing with her bright child -- are handsomely observed and beautifully played. In Lu, Tian...
...impish mood here. He finds hairpin turns and deadpan delight in the sexual and political intrigue devised by screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz. And Zamachowski, who has some of Dustin Hoffman's molelike ingenuity, plays Karol Karol (Charlie Charlie in Polish) as a Chaplin figure hatching a Kafka plot...