Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ostensible premise is that, on Feb. 13th, 2001, the universe suddenly shrinks, forcing us all to relive 10 years of experiences without changing a thing. But the plot's all just a springboard for Vonnegut's meandering, anecdotal and highly autobiographical discussion of life, death, history, religion, war, politics, family values and "the death of American eloquence" (among many, many other things...
...press. His reason, as he explained at the Brattle Theatre Tuesday night, was that he "didn't know what the hell it was about." Suddenly one book short of a three-book contract, Vonnegut spent the next few years overhauling the novel, drastically paring down the original "temporal anomaly" plot and filling the void with personal remembrances and ruminations...
...asked to be born in the first place") to the final moments of his first wife's existence (an event which is treated with great respect and tenderness and features some of the book's most skillful imagery). If anything is a digression, it's the barely developed timequake plot itself...
...Locusts, the debut feature of writer-director John Patrick Kelley, is perhaps the first film ever to use the castration of a steer as a major plot point...
Unlike Nair's sexy ancient love story, however, Mehta (director and writer) weaves a much more accessible plot in the modern, if less romantic, setting of a present-day middle class family in New Delhi...