Conceits
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(It is one of the story's amusing
conceits
that witches and warlocks are portrayed as Greenwich Village beatniks and bohemians.)
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There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human
conceits
than this distant image of our tiny world.
The direction also relies way too much on the
conceits
of a pointlessly whispered narration, and the imagery of an 18th century chess-playing machine that looks like one of those animatronic gypsy fortunetellers you see at the carnival.
For a director trafficking in reality-based drama (as here), he never feels any pull to tie his bundle of
conceits
back to reality; or to a coherent story.
It needs the viewer to buy into a series of
conceits.
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