Word: shallowness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is more comedy in "Young Poisoner," black comedy, which is its true intention. But the black comedy here is not even close to that of "Pulp Fiction" and "Shallow Grave." The screenplay doesn't keep up with the humor that it strives for, and the narration becomes quite unnecessary as the movie progresses. It also suffers from an excess of graphic violence; there are vomiting scenes a-plenty, making this a good last-date movie...
Opponents of religious displays, such as those on the Council's Student Affairs Committee, correctly attack them as parochial. But the real problem with most displays is that they are completely shallow. Sometimes they are so shallow that no one can even agree if they are religious at all. Christmas trees are ironic in that Christians often consider them secular, while non-Christians consider them religious. Several house committee chairs have told me they would be ambivalent about religious events sponsored by the house but simultaneously have defended "holiday" (a.k.a Christmas) decorations as inclusive...
...with regard to Germans' violation of Jews' humanity that I consider analogous to White slavocracy's violation of Blacks' humanity, Jeffery Vanke is equally shallow, though with a pseudo-veneer of reflectiveness. Witness Jeffrey Vanke's comments like--"I am sorry for slavery like I am sorry for the Holocaust (no family connections there)," and like--"...the Holocaust was very foreign to this Southerner [Jeffrey Vanke] who knew no Jews until...
Should the song have been remembered for its message, not its messengers? Perhaps, since the singing characters had already been portrayed as shallow bimbos. Before intermission came, the show also managed a salvo aimed at black urban culture. Stunned silence from some and guffaws from others greeted Nick Gordon's caricature of a performance as Sheik Ir-Bouti, recently returned from Long Island. In addition to the odious attributes of the show's writing, the majority of the actors suffered from overplaying that reached beyond the simply funny and into the realm of the suicide-inspiring...
...constant mutation: the actor playing Adam in one scene is Noah in the next, but no deep resemblance between these two characters is suggested. Instead, it just seems as if the oldest actor has been put in the oldest roles. These frequent changes, necessitated by the story line, create shallow characters...