Word: unevennesses
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...could see that it was escalating and that people were in such peril. This was not a civil war, this was an armed military against just people on the street--completely uneven," Barron adds...
...blow up a Death Star twice, but you better have a good reason. The first Star Wars trilogy, uneven as it might be, at least developed a story that grew and widened with each sequel. When Darth Vader bent to pick up the Emperor, taking a posture unprecedented in the previous movies, the meaningfulness of that moment rested on Vader's character development, which had been unfurled and complicated over the length of three feature films. It is this sort of meaningfulness that Star Wars: Episode I lacks. Instead of real character development, it relies on name recognition. At every...
...example, Bavarians, Saxons, Prussians, Swabians and numerous other regional identities were all absorbed into the single entity of modern Germany. The urban industrial economy assimilated many of those distinct regional identities and forged a single culture. In some areas, this process occurred relatively smoothly; elsewhere, the process was uneven and sometimes sparked a nationalist backlash. Among the Basques of Spain or the Corsicans of France, this has taken the form of separatist violence. Among the Scots it has been largely confined to the soccer field. After all, they receive 32 percent more per capita of London's public funds than...
...them in How the Other Half Loves. Ayckbourn's farce about marital infidelity is notoriously hard to stage effectively, and the rather conventional space provided by the Agassiz (as opposed to the more flexible Loeb Ex) doesn't make the task any easier. The result, while uneven at times, is admirable. More than that: it is remarkable...
...danger in making any film as intricate as Lovers of the Arctic Circle is that it can become overwhelming, not just for the audience but for the filmmakers as well. Indeed, Medem's piece often feels uneven...