Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Adoration: Heavy issues, so-so treatment

Posted By on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM

By Matt Brunson

Chance encounters and other extraordinary circumstances of this nature are tricky beasts when it comes to their employment in motion pictures. We swallow them when we want to swallow them -- i.e. when the film in question has us completely in its grasp -- but spit them out without even bothering to chew when we find them too artificial, when they're employed merely for the sake of convenience by a filmmaker who lazily needs to connect Plot Point A to Plot Point B.

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