Word: triteness
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Though its cast of Blacks, Hispanics and Caucasians approaches terminal P.C., "Totally F***ed Up" is never trite. Araki's multiracial cast shows that homosexuality is not just a "white male thing." Even so, the movie is ultimately about the need to understand the issues that confront gay teenagers today--and not about race...
...audience that the play is about the clash between the East and the West, Houston begins with a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," which cuts into "Sakura," a Japanese folk song. The stylized quality of the prelude, almost like a traditional Japanese drama, is alternately interesting and trite. Using brief statements, each of the women introduces herself to the audience. But the traits of the characters which be prelude conveys would be obvious in any case. And the inclusion of some really banal lines does not help. [Of tea] "We Japanese women drink a lot of it... Become...
Thankfully, the rest of the play does not follow in the vein of its overly trite prelude. By alternating scenes in which the characters interact with each other or address the audience, Houston creates a finely woven story of some hapless Japanese women trapped in America...
Because she changed doctors so much, no one became familiar with her medical history and no one could diagnose what was wrong with her. Each time she went she would be sent home with Penicillin and a trite "feel better...
...Phillip's posturing or to the traumas of the third act; McCullers has them go right on being the pushy belle, the sniffling old maid, the smart aleck kid, and the love struck good guy, even as Phillip self-destructs. The imbalance of the heavy drama with the trite filler of the other characters is uneven, unsettling, and unsatisfactory...