Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the time our interest in a movie -- especially the American variety -- is plot propelled. Here are some pretty people. Let's see what's going to happen to them in this or that difficult situation. Oh, no, not that! Watch out! Look behind...
...line by line and knows exactly what she is doing. Her actors actually seem to understand what they're saying and not a single double entendre is missed. While she has cut some speeches and reassigned others, it seems to have added to, not confused, the coherency of the plot...
...being gay. It's about dealing with people who come out of the closet, and Johnston knows about that. Eleven years ago, Johnston's brother-in-law revealed to her and her family that he is gay. We can expect that "For Better or For Worse" will treat this plot line in the educated manner we have come to expect from...
...female critic and, on occasion, her own lover, himself an artist of more modest and domestically inclined talents. While the parallels with contemporary culture wars are obvious -- and reinforced by the use of electronically jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes, it embraces none. The excitement comes from Stevenson, flailing in outrage, cosseting a deranged daughter, nibbling her lover's abdomen in tenderness, peering with professional scrutiny at a war victim's ghastly wounds. The role offers...
...plot is dreary and predictable in its basics: neurasthenic young woman falls apart. That is, in fact, what happens; Ann Rogers crumbles and collapses. Why does this matter? Why does author Harrison's novel (her second, after the much praised Thicker Than Water) grab the reader by the throat? Is it the hook of that voyeuristic first scene in the taxi? Are we waiting for something like that striptease to happen again...