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Maybe no screenplay could have adequately conveyed the character's motivations and the plot only makes sense in book form, but this screenwriter's attempt is truly terrible.
The motivations of the characters are laughably non-existent.
The plot and the motivations are bad enough.
Jones blends humor and insight with storytelling to give a vivid picture of the motivations and fears of the different players.
It reaffirms our prejudices without clarifying the characters' underlying motivations.
Instead, the motivations of the characters were initially presented and then left unexplored.
This movie doesn't really have a hero... Everybody in the movie eventually does something that causes you to question their integrity or decency and you never really understand the underlying motivations causing the behavior.
In the true spirit of the documentary he leaves it up to the audience to draw their own conclusions concerning Peter Berlin, his motivations, and his inner life.
There are plenty of point-of-view shots of the heavy-breathing masked killer, shock cuts, lots of red herrings and obscure motivations, etc.
When a girl tells new arrival Heather a spooky myth about the boarding school deep in the woods she has just arrived in, the avid viewer pretty much knows the secret of the place, the main villain's motivations and secrets and can easily map out the proceedings from there.
One of the main problem is the massacre of most of the motivations that guided Ged & helped me relate to him as a character.
Mitchum and Wright are OK but the characters are not well developed and their motivations are unclear.
On the verge of losing his job at a two star hotel, he becomes involved in an incident (which I won't reveal here) that is so muddled, so badly played out and so unbelievable that I found it hard to believe that the rest of the motivations of the characters in this movie, rested on it.
It doesn't place blame, rather shows implications of well intentioned, ignorant motivations.
Pontecorvo's first feature is an emotionally powerful film, driven by his usual, but earnest political and sociological motivations.
As a sequel, it completely rejected the motivations of the characters in the original movie, reducing the cinematic experience to, "suffer through the terrible dialog for 5 minutes until a gunfight occurs".
Some of the motivations in the plot are fuzzy: Glenda Farrell's relationship with her boyfriend (is it just me or does Douglass Dunmbrille look like Lionel Atwill were separated at birth?) is about as unclear as her reaction to his... errh, that'd give away too much.
It's almost to easy to pick up on character motivations in the film, play, or novel adaptations.
We all interpret someone else's motivations and actions based upon a variety of subjective factors- our background, interpersonal history, friends/family influences . . .
i just think all these characters are flat, thoughtless interpretations of how real people would conduct themselves in similar situation with similar motivations.
I did find the updated dialogs annoying at times, because it often obscured the real motivations for the characters actions.
When it's completely unclear what any of their motivations are, or what we're supposed to think about the choices they make, if they're choices at all?
The performances in the film are all first rate, and the single flashback sequence toward the end of the film (the flashback that explains the motivations for the lead character's actions) is both heartbreaking and horrifying.
I saw a lot of things done by the characters -- things that were loud, emotional, rash and sudden; things that had to have some very strong motivations behind them.
And when a movie is full of actions that require definite motivations, but don't have them, that movie ends up being tiring, pointless and unsatisfying -- which is what "The Rose" is.
The only negative thing I have to say is that the last few episodes got a little weird in terms of character motivations but other than that it is a fantastic show.
Next, the movie plays on it's vagueness, we don't understand the motivations behind any of these characters and the dialogue comes off as contrived and phony.
The characters and motivations of the mother, father, daughter and one of her brothers are very well-developed, as is that of an unrelated woman that comes to their small Maryland coastal town with some baggage of her own.
Adam questions Brent's motivations and claims he doesn't trust him, Nora buts in to cast further doubt on Brent and says "and he carries a gun" her henpecked husband Dan says "how do you know?", she replies "I noticed the bulge in his pants" to which Dan accusingly say "yes, you would!", great stuff.
The film never explains any character's motivations, except that everyone either wants to save their country and their president, even on their death bed, or they want to blow up america.
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