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But look closely at what Ebert says: To be reminded of the power of film as a medium is not quite the same as being moved by a particular film, and Bringing Out the Dead is, for all its hectic pacing and breakneck intensity, an oddly unmoving experience.
Although it "bristles with sharply observed detail" (David Gates, Newsweek ), the book runs into trouble in terms of developing characters and maintaining any sort of pacing or momentum.
While she does like many of her friends' pets, she also goes to the zoo and sees fur coats pacing around the cages.
The first time I saw Affliction , it struck me as both arid and pretentious; the second, arriving with no narrative expectations, I found myself more tolerant of the pacing and more drawn in by the performances.
The pacing is purposefully slack--the gags just dribble out.