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I am a Midwesterner who loves visiting New York City, so I do not believe it is a put down of the big apple, but simply a comic study of a trip where everything goes wrong for a very high-strung person and his comparatively passive wife.
I also agree, the educational part was not about Charlie Banks, who seems very passive and self centered with many short rather flippant comments.
Yes, it's a depressing tale at times, and this is lent a lot by two cracking performances from a wonderfully hang dog and passive Timothy Spall, and a cast-against-type turn from Lesley Manville as his shrewish wife.
As a passive observer of compelling and authentic portrayal of a journey of a Girl finding her true identity, I had suspended my reality and enjoyed the experience.
It shows the African spirit not only as passive and accepting or merely as a vehicle to be brutalised by an antagonist who is given all the lines but here the Africans are allowed to be people.
This complex and beautiful film is built on correspondences and contrasts; between landscape and society, man and nature, between passive and active, death and life, sanity and madness, the repressed and the unbridled, sexuality and abstinence, comedy and tragedy, alienation and redemption.
It is more in line with The Purple Rose of Cairo portraying a passive character with enough soul to give to others but unable to make good with people because of inhibitions.
My advice: Don't waste your time on this show about a man, his passive wife and his shack jobs.
As I contemplated the hollow feeling of having wasted a couple hours watching the film, I switched from passive viewer into active reviewer mode to determine why HTD didn't work on so many levels.
As such, the film is a call to action, not just a passive documentary record.
I admire the acting skills of Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, but I was disappointed by the uninteresting story, which I'd sum up as "Pampered socialite mother and daughter see themselves as victims of the Depression and are too passive to take care of themselves.
In fact, through most of the scenes at the house, the victimized guests all seem so passive, pretty much just allowing Alex and Ricky do what they wanted to do.
And it seems the whole hundreds-plus audience, many of whom were children, agreed with me in their numb, passive state.
A beautifully photographed,oddball gangster film which manages to see-saw the viewer's emotions.Beat Takeshi's passive persona always seems to work in this kind of film.
There's Nazi loot and a nightclub, and Lloyd Nolan as a chummy cop, and lots of quirky characters (including one of my favourites, Housely Stevenson), who are there mainly to distract you, because Hodiak's character is so passive that he isn't even in the final scene - a cheery wash-up reminiscent of a mild sitcom.
Movie about an odd, underground segment, the intellectually passive version of Cronenberg's Crash.
This is an awful film as far as passive but discerning viewers are concerned.
I thought it was an enjoyable film, the main character is a passive intellectual but I've known people like him and he rings true to this time (around 2002).
The last show I saw, they tried to wave away the dangers of passive smoking.
The acting was over the top by almost all the actors save for Caleb which was so understated that it made his passive character seem like a doormat.
The acting was competent, although I doubt that Bakula's confused, rather passive protagonist could have sustained an entire series.
After years of taking a passive, low-profile approach to the epidemic, health officials have stepped up their anti-HIV campaign.
Ahmadinejad himself, however, has generally ignored the post-election crisis in his public statements, and evidently believed that Khamenei’s post-election support meant that the Supreme Leader would remain passive in the face of encroachments on his traditional powers and prerogatives.
“Frankly,” he said, “we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and a much more active, muscular liberalism.”
New reactors being built today incorporate significantly enhanced safety features, both active and passive, compared to the Fukushima generation of reactors.
But that is not to say that the US must always be passive.
At a time when German leadership is so badly needed in Europe, the country is set to continue to play a passive role.
The regime benefited from the active support of the Alawite community and the passive stance of other minorities, as well as of the bourgeoisie in Damascus and Aleppo, whose members feared the regime’s fall and its replacement by Islamists or other radical groups.
Israel has maintained a cautious stance thus far, but has indicated that it will not remain passive if such weapons end up with Hezbollah.
So far, the Fund has not fully exploited its unique position, because it has often been passive in reaching out, giving clear messages, and making recommendations to its members.
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