Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back on his college years. Thompson relies on an episodic structure which, though it does have great moments, doesn't hold the film together well. His trademark of using little moments to wrench the heart is not cohesive. This incoherence, particularly toward the end of the film, pushes over-romanticized events beyond the realm of believability...
Perhaps Thompson has attempted too much in directing the film. A more experienced director might have been able to glue the beautifully written vignettes together a bit better. And with more objectivity, another director might not have been forced to salvage a romantic ending with a voice overdub intended to...
A romantic notion of "hacking" was introduced to the public in the popular film "Wargames," in which the teenager committing the computer crimes was portrayed as the good guy. Senior computer experts have predicted that Morris will become the same kind of "folk hero" for his virus. This evidence that...
The book requires imaginative effort, and it alternately challenges and intimidates its would-be readers. "The reader capable of deciphering the hidden meaning of a book from the order of its entries has long since vanished from the face of the earth," Pavic notes disdainfully, but I suspect that readers...
The romantic geometry in Italian American Reconciliation is familiarly lopsided. Teresa (Laura San Giacomo) loves and is in love with Huey (John Pankow). Huey loves Teresa but is in love with his ex-wife Janice (Jayne Haynes). Janice hates Huey and just about everybody else. Nor is the world crazy...