Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still, Medem's tightly crafted plot and interlacing narratives fit together like the proof of a logical theorem. His characters move like points on a coordinate plane, and when the movie is complete you can see the curve of the actions that they left trailing behind them. Perhaps whats most surprising is that all of this happens in the context of a love story...
...though his plot were not off-kilter enough, Medem feels the need to smother his story in coincidences and near-misses. Otto and Ana's first meeting, their parent's decision to marry, the manner in which they learn of each other's whereabouts after years of separation (Ana just happens to decide she should live in Finland and Otto just happens to take a job flying packages between Spain and the Arctic Circle)--all of these increasingly unlikely events are consciously presented as a chain of coincidences. At the same time, Otto and Ana's love is not simply...
...still, Medem's tightly crafted plot and interlacing narratives fit together like the proof of a logical theorem. His characters move like points on a coordinate plane, and when the movie is complete you can see the curve of the actions that they left trailing behind them. Perhaps whats most surprising is that all of this happens in the context of a love story...
...though his plot were not off-kilter enough, Medem feels the need to smother his story in coincidences and near-misses. Otto and Ana's first meeting, their parent's decision to marry, the manner in which they learn of each other's whereabouts after years of separation (Ana just happens to decide she should live in Finland and Otto just happens to take a job flying packages between Spain and the Arctic Circle)--all of these increasingly unlikely events are consciously presented as a chain of coincidences. At the same time, Otto and Ana's love is not simply...
FROM ANOTHER WORLD TO OURS After 35 years on the air, Another World, NBC's longest-running soap opera, has been canceled. You may not know anything about Bay City, but a number of important plot developments and future stars premiered there, some more welcome than others...