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The performance by Fiona Kay is excellent, but she is the only fleshed-out character, and doesn't really behave as a normal person, more an adult's rather twisted vision of what a small girl might do and think.
None of the actors tend to behave like a real person would in the same situation.
The reasons why the characters behave in a certain way are told - not shown.
There are some disturbing moments (the opening fight/murder, where we don't even know who the villain is; the barking kids; the bathtub scene), but the film lacks a clear idea of how it wants to portray the "infected" people; most of the time they behave like energetic sex maniacs, but at other times they become the plodding zombies of the "NOTLD" variety.
It's appealing to see people behave in a civilized way to each other, as they do in this movie.
And this is where its genius rests, Tex Avery manages to pose a number of questions only in seven minutes: why does the wolf behave so erratically, why does he fall so stupidly for the dame, who wins at the end: the exploited nightclub dancer, the suicidal wolf or the libidinous grandma?
it does seem to preach to them, how they should behave and what their responsibilities are.
In fact, characters in this series behave amazingly stupid (i.e.
They all hate each other, and the old bags even more, but there's quite an immense fortune to inherit soon, so they all behave friendly.
Tsunashima did his best to behave like the Japanese caricature that the filmmaker wanted, and of course same goes for the wife and the whole setup in the last third of the film.
He finds out that his friend became shark food, and tries to find out why the sharks have started to behave so aggressively in this particular area.
It's a film in which people who behave cruelly and stupidly are supposed to be viewed as charming.
The martial arts is one of the worst in recent years: People behave like puppets and as seen in many low budget movies, enemies seem to stand in a queue: only one is attacking the "hero" at once.
Happy Endings is the kind of self-conscious puzzle picture in which characters behave in ways that serve the plot but in no way resemble things that actual human beings would be likely to do.
We never even get a handle on the characters; any resemblance between the way these people talk and behave and the way REAL people talk and behave is strictly coincidental.
It looks for all the world like a Deanna Durbin vehicle and Miss Powell is directed to look and sing and move and behave as if she were the inimitable Ms. Durbin, but she's all falseness where Deanna was completely natural.
Stone hero-worships Swann but fails to make him behave.
Not only there is exclusively English spoken, but the actors do not behave as if they were in Europe.
The script was terrible: it seemed like a middle-class film-maker's idea of how working-class people speak and behave.
Some of the characters behave really really odd though, especially the detective guy.
One senses early on how the thing is going to end, and the characters behave as one would expect.
To tell you the truth I was blubbering wreck by the end because there was so many resonances with my own life, with the relationship I have with my own daughter, with the way men behave in real life.
Brigitte Lin is a masculine, abusive, violent cop, who picks a high paid gigolo because she can control, beat, and threaten him to behave.
Those people draw a parallel between lambs and people, if they behave like a conformist or forget about being conformist, if you are not interested in such things, if you are not against everything, then you are a lamb.
At no point in the story do we have any idea why the characters behave the way they do.
We meet our guards, a couple of guys who behave like clowns and a female who's got a bit of a back-story (gee, wonder who will live 'till the end?).
But there were other times I was laughing out loud, such as the Amazing Racist, he acts very closely to the way that way too many people think and behave, he's just braver and more brazen than the average person with his combination of ignorance and arrogance.
As a non-Brit it is amazing and certainly amusing to see all the British behave in such a distinct way, only common to the islanders and I do not mean any of that slur which this politicised film tries to mobilise against.
Her fellow students don't exactly welcome her, the teachers all behave strangely and pretty soon Heather even begins to hear "voices" speaking to her from within the woods.
Why would friends advise Scott on how to behave unless they suspected he was guilty and want to help him look innocent?
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