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Rigid acting; illogical continuity.
The central character, vividly portrayed by Mimi Rogers, leads a very loose lifestyle in the initial stages of the film and converts to an overly rigid lifestyle in the latter stages after becoming disenchanted and seemingly depressed with what was transpiring in her life.
My only complaint was that it was a little over 2 hours long so it does require a clear, rigid mind if you are going to watch it however the film moves at such a fast pace your mind won't really wonder very far at all.
We're also presented with a scene that is tiny, remote and claustrophobic, with drag queens at the bottom of a rigid internal hierarchy, everyone's on the skids, and dykes are harpies from another planet.
Meryl Streep was so poor and rigid in her role as the therapist, that I almost left the theater before it was over.
I thought this movie was definitely original, funny, sad, and emotional in many ways...I didn't expect much and was simply curious about the film due to having been the number 2 movie of 2005 in Korea...I'd definitely recommend it - it really reminds us about what's important in life...I found it quite heartwarming how such adversarial parties could learn to enjoy a genuine fellowship sans the rigid, conformist partisanship that was indoctrinated by their respective countries.
As the two say and agree upon, it has to do with scenes, the behavior allotted not in a very rigid story structure but in what can be done just in one scene.
Frankly, I was bored rigid after the first 30 minutes, and couldn't wait for it to end.
Garfield is also insecure and needs the approval of his rigid, unyielding mother who disapproves of his career choice and would prefer to see her son become a success in another profession.
The breakout role has to be Beth Grant, who really is a delight as the rigid, creepy disciplinarian assistant.
Horrible acting.. rigid and without a single strand of imagination or panache.
It also has much the same agenda as "Clueless" of taking a gentle poke at affluent society's rigid class system and wafer-thin "caring about the environment" values.
Those who have something invested in keeping the boundaries of gender and sexuality rigid will be offended by this film, whether they be religious fundamentalist types or gay-rights advocates who argue from the constrictive either/or framing of their opponents.
As time and her illness progresses, Miss Dove, best known to the small town as a rigid and stiff disciplinarian, realizes the positive effects she has had on the people around her, and their love for her.
We never see what they do to him but he emerges nearly three hours later, a pale white zombie scared rigid by what he has experienced.
But the cost of such rigid rules may be high, and their effectiveness, as witnessed by the vagaries of the United States’ record on human rights, is less fool-proof than is sometimes imagined.
Just as labor markets can be too rigid, they can be too flexible.
Europe has a general macroeconomic problem, owing to demand factors that interact with a rigid labor market, rather than a specific youth-unemployment problem.
Growth in China’s megacities – metropolitan areas with a population exceeding ten million – has long been heavily constrained by rigid state administrative divisions and planning agencies.
Moreover, EU-level decisions have been pickled into rigid codes to which member states must adhere, even if their governments or electorates do not support them.
Yet the chaebols’ hierarchical management structure is often too rigid to correct bad decisions.
And that means that China also must reconsider its rigid notion of sovereignty.
The WHO’s dubious decisions demonstrate that its officials are either too rigid or incompetent (or both) to make necessary adjustments to the pandemic warning system – which is what we have come to expect from an organization that is scientifically challenged, self-important, and unaccountable.
For countries that had embraced more flexible exchange rates – Russia, Brazil, and Colombia, among many others – the initial reversal of oil and primary commodity prices ushered in a wave of currency crashes, while those that maintained more rigid exchange-rate arrangements experienced rapid reserve losses.
Traditional hierarchies routinely cultivate eccentrics as harmless adornments of a rigid order.
Poverty and the rigid social control of a reactionary Roman Catholic Church made the country inhospitable to intellectual life -- to Britain's and America's great advantage, because both received many bright Irish fleeing the stultifying intellectual life of their homeland.
Rewriting the Monetary-Policy ScriptMUNICH – How long will major central banks blindly rely on rigid rules to control inflation and stimulate growth?
The Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank all hone to rather rigid policy rules.
A new and more realistic monetary paradigm would discard overly rigid rules that embody the fallacy that monetary policy is always effective.
Rigid, top-down uniformity is essential in the specification of weights and measures and the issuance of currency and coin.
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