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But Whale's plangent ruminations are slack as well: "I've spent much of my life outrunning the past, and now it floods all over," he tells Boone, in what is surely the most generic line for a "memory play" ever written.
Praise also goes to Fitzgerald's command of dialogue: "The conversations are many-voiced, sharp-witted and finely tuned enough to allow the reader to hear plangent undernotes and to feel the intoxicating buzz that good talk emits" (Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the Sunday Times ).
What other madcap farce would dare to have a score--it's by the superb Carter Burwell--so plangent and melancholy?
The movie's surface is velvety and immaculate--until the action is abruptly viewed through the video camera of the teen-age voyeur next door (Wes Bentley), and the graininess of the video image (along with the plangent music) suggests how unstable the molecules that constitute our "reality" really are.
The Apostle's preachings (one can hardly call them "sermons") are marvelous production numbers, alternately plangent and syncopated; they make everyone--even those of us in the movie audience predisposed to find a Christian evangelist threatening--feel welcome.