Word: surreal
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...characters in brazen contempt. The Leibeslieders, a kind of Greek chorus, add another narrative layer to the work. Each of the singers parallels a character and performs occasional scenes based the plot, though an exact connection is difficult to decipher. Along with Leonora's critique, the Leibeslieders have a surreal effect on A Little Night Music...
...general, The Alarmist suffers from a kind of multiple personality disorder. Lines like "stop or I'll shoot" and "I love her and you took her away" alternate with weirdly sophisticated monologues on security and trust. The plot aims to depict paranoid modernity but misses, venturing off into the surreal as it ticks through comedy, romance, tragedy and documentary. The aesthetic attempts to depict low-class L.A. kitsch (the 1954 sushi joint, Tommy's family home in the outer 'burbs), but lacks many key touches. Especially lacking is the cool, retro music soundtrack one would associate with such a picture...
...turned out he was a Satanist," types a young South Park habitue named Wyld DiVa. "I'm Christian myself, but I'm very open-minded, and we ended up discussing theology for, like, three hours while all these kids jumped in and out. It was very surreal...
Spooky: The sounds, telephones, car sirens going off, sci-fi channels, busy signals. You can listen and record your environment. There's a surrealism in basic everyday life. I'm here, I'm living, I'm walking down the street. I need to get a bite of food. I walk into a 7-11. There are all the candy bar wrappers and the lights. That's surreal. All the candy wrappers have smiley faces. That's real...
...dream. There's a good deal of slapstick humor (flower pots and eggs falling on the heads of government officials, Benigni paying so much attention to Dora in his restaurant that he ends up carrying a live poodle on his serving tray), complemented by a lyrical and occasionally surreal style. Benigni's talent as a wordsmith is also evident: no knowledge of Italian is necessary to understand that he has a way with the language that is highly amusing in itself. There are also, however, hints of what is to come, but it's not in Guido's nature...