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Why the "linguistic contortions"?
Because once you immolate your leading lady, you have to execute some mighty violent narrative contortions to bring her back, and by the time you've explained what she's doing there and why, half the movie is gone.
"Their problem: In writing and speaking they spend a lot of time in linguistic contortions, trying to explain that they neither love nor hate technology."
Their linguistic contortions turn into bodily contortions as they literally tie themselves in knots, their desperation for attention doing battle with their determination to say nothing worthy of it.
One can only imagine the "heads I win, tails you lose" contortions these thinkers would have offered for America's woes in 1929.