Word: plotting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...believe the reason that Slumdog has been raking in awards is simply that Western audiences haven't seen many films like it before. "It is a good film, no doubt," says Manpreet Singh, a graphics designer based in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. "The narrative style and the plot are interesting. But if I speak for Indians like me, there's nothing new in it for us. It's saturated with stereotyped images of India. The expectations that had built up [around the film] were bound to make it a letdown." Vikas Swarup, author...
...technology, the agonizing ambiguities of legal decision-making, what to do with underwater alien spheres, etc. The Associate is as close to being about nothing as a book can be - it's a masterpiece of almost ghostly narrative minimalism, a book of names without characters, a book with plot points but no plot...
...provide more detail of plot and dialogue, but the visual palette was way too dark for me to take legible notes, and frankly, though I saw it at a midnight screening hours ago, the movie just wasn't that memorable. Suffice to say that there's much bounding about by furry, blurry CGI werewolves, quite a few decapitations and a poignant but nifty crisping of one of the vampires when exposed to sunlight. Being set in an earlier day (night), Lycans renounces the whizzing Matrix-like bullets of the first two movies for swords and a heavy-metal...
...lia’s name. This, combined with the plaintive male tones of the phone message that precedes the show, vaguely suggests an unexplored romantic storyline. The “Oratorio” would benefit from choosing one of two directions—either further developing the underlying plot or abandoning the storyline altogether and indulging in pure imagery. The common thread of these spectacles is one of reversal and of questioning impossibility. But the conceit never grows stilted or predictable. Sure, the idea of someone walking on her hands isn’t particularly unique in and of itself...
...Village Quire, musical groups that play and dress as musicians would centuries ago and who come together to preserve tradition and create a spectacle of Christmas cheer. The show ties together 33 theatrical, song, and dance numbers celebrating Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the Winter Solstice with a common plot line: the townspeople must use their acts to convince the village pastor to stop meddling with tradition. For anyone with Scroogelike tendencies, this show will be sure to dispel all negative thinking. “Revels” is bursting at the seams with Yuletide spirit, transporting the audience back...