Word: meaninglessness
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...Allen's cosmic nihilism. But Allen is no longer a pure nihilist; he is using this nihilism to affirm himself. Kierkegaard chose the story of Abraham to illustrate this metamorphosis: Abraham must sacrifice his son, Isaac (whose name means "laughter"), to fulfill an unknown Being's absurd and meaningless request...
...teams sloshed through the mud in the final, meaningless minutes, but the upset was final...
There is, however, a track that is beautiful. It's called "Morning Sun." Beautiful. Some may say that's a meaningless lable, but are you really going to go and listen to a song which I describe as harmonically complex, instrumentally balanced and rhythmically and emotionally intense? (All of which "Morning Sun" is.) But you don't really think of the song in those terms when you hear it, just as you don't usually analyse this band's lyrics. It's the old story of great music (or any art form, I guess) being that whose overall effect...
...dandy half-hour, as well orchestrated an action sequence as you are likely to see, with the director drawing a nice but not overstated analogy between the meaningless violence of the game itself and the larger, equally meaningless violence impending from above. He is not saying the one begets the other, merely that there is something besides coincidence in their juxtaposition...
...play say more than a few words, it is hard to judge the quality of the performances of the other actors mired in this hopeless plot. Tanya Luhrmann is fine as the president's mistress, saying very little but looking lovely and excruciatingly bored with her lover's meaningless ramblings...