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Director John Singleton ( Boyz N the Hood ) is accused of sentimentalizing his subject and resorting to action-film banalities--"a sorry assortment of dramatic and visual clichés that were retired from service, or should have been, decades ago," says the Wall Street Journal 's Morgenstern.
That vapid, sentimentalizing declaration about Jane's ride is typical of the flaccid style she now favors, and what it says proves true: The novel is all anticlimax.
Kaufman and Jonze end up sentimentalizing the longing for a collective consciousness in a way I found creepy: Do they mean to be retelling Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the body-snatchers' point of view?
At times, Duvall seemed to be sentimentalizing the gypsies; at others, he seemed to be rubbing our noses in their ugliness and duplicity--or was that just my racism?