Word: plotting
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Characters in Wargnier's films are subservient to the plot. Like pictures in a textbook, they become concrete incarnations of the political and historical contexts where Wargnier puts them. In his latest film, East-West, Wargnier has chosen post-World War II Russia as the setting of another ambitious story of epic proportions. Events are presented in a more focused and coherent fashion than in Indochine, characters have more depth and credibility, but the film does not escape Wargnier's predilection for clichs and characters whose personal attributes are secondary to their role as symbols of his political and moral...
...ensuing plot tracks the descent into an inescapable nightmare. Marie is driven by an overwhelming desire to escape the poverty and tyranny of Stalin's Russia and return to France. When a French acting troupe comes to Kiev, Marie seizes an opportunity of escape by giving a letter to the lead actress played by Catherine Deneuve. Marie hopes the French government will recognize her plight and help her return to France...
...With little in the way of character development, East-West ultimately relies on plot to sustain the viewer's interest. Rather than engaging us, East-West compels us to ask: Will Sasha make the team? Will Marie escape? There is little ambiguity and no humor to overcome the predictable and increasingly tiresome turns of plot...
...Ronnie (Paul Monteleoni '01) draws laughs as he attempts to bomb the visiting Pope, Bunny withholds her cooking from Artie until their honeymoon while freely dispensing sex, and Artie himself has his wife and girlfriend side by side as he vacillates between tender words and cruelty towards each. The plot has an element of fantastic unreality which leaves one wondering if Bananas is in fact the only sane character in the show. Within this dizzying action the mystery of Bananas' sickness and her underlying personality unfolds as we watch her fondle her husband's discarded jacket and blossom only after...
Despite the contrived plot and deus-ex-machina ending, The Skulls, possibly unwittingly, demonstrates how there is clearly no place for these exclusive, self-interested groups on a modern campus...