NP - wallowing in the banal

[Mark Kohut]

My schoolboy-like self-education left this mawkish old man with this:
Any sentiment in art, if earned by the characters in their interactive
plot, is OK; if unearned, we call it sentimental rightfully.

To me, real sentiment is much harder to earn in most movies: not enough
time for real feelings, only the signaling of feelings.

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've actually seen The Square twice. Brilliant! I wouldn't go near the
> Shape of Water. Even a hint of mawkishness is more than I can bear.
>
> On Dec 26, 2017 1:35 PM, "Charles Albert" <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Shape of Water.......Sally Hawkins...
>
> The script isn't at all original, and it frequently veers to the mawkish,
> but
>
>
> It is visually stunning....a great deal of Teal....the collection of late
> 1950s autos, but particularly the bus (looks like it came out of the
> Sunbeam collection). A lot of pop rivets.....kinda homely, but I really
> want one.
>
> and Sally Hawkins.....as a mute..... near impossibly expressive eyes which
> dominate a face which at first may look plain, but within 3 minutes becomes
> literally unbearably beautiful...There is a scene with Richard Jenkins
> wherein she tries to recruit him into the enterprise - if you aren't
> crying, you are a zombie.
>
> love,
>
> cfa
>
>
>
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