Word: tragically
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...movie has enough plot for three good movies, or at least three better ones than this. There are two tragic mother-son pairs, two suicides, a grotty autopsy, a car crash and much spectral infiltration of supporting characters. (They stick their ghostly heart through your rib cage, then squeeze). I found the movie wearying and stayed only because Mary C., who had to leave after the first hour, wanted to know how it came out. The short answer: boy gets girl, ghosts run wild. And that wasn't worth waiting for. But if you've always wanted...
...both by the drama of war and illness and by the monotony of school and girls. The gritty realism of Gray’s writing persists through his sketches of unlikable characters, ambiguous moments, and unsatisfying conclusions: Thaw’s early love affairs, for one, are not simply tragic or unrequited, but rather attempted, abandoned, unresolved, and forgotten, with none of the conclusive flair that readers have come to expect in a novel. Such literary decisions culminate in a story that is all the more compelling for its seeming incompleteness...
...equated modern urban life to “the example of a stone falling downwards with increasing velocity.” Bureaucratic jobs, endless soirées and “proper” marriages to fill our social roles, applicable to 19th century Moscow or Cambridge tomorrow. A tragic mirage that entails hypocrisy, emptiness, and cocktail parties...
...younger woman (Watling). But the wife has news that's even more surprising. Isabel Coixet's fable is about the importance of the external signs of domestic attachment: "And by pretending he was in love with her, he fell in love with her." It's funny and tragic, a tightwire act of laughter and tears...
...19th arrondisement. Just when we were wondering if there were any non-whites in Paris, Oliver Schmitz provided a little epic of the African diaspora in France. In his last moments of life, a wounded man from Lagos is tended by a sympathetic paramedic, also African. Flashbacks paint a tragic few years in a few moments: a job lost, a guitar stolen, a knife in the gut, all given meaning by one sweet brief encounter in a parking garage...