The mix of minimal staging and vivid cinematic imagery was reasonably slickly handled, despite a certain early Doctor Who air to some of the more clumsy interactions.
She conjures up plenty of atmosphere, but any tension is punctured by the heavy-handed dialogue and clumsy interactions of the novel's two main players.
In that case, according to the standard interpretation of the subject, physics is not about the world at all, but about only the outcomes of experiments, of our clumsy interactions with that world.
Her wonderfully awkward interaction with Hansley the cleaner, who has been helping to resolve the legal problems surrounding her divorce, is particularly nice for its clumsy subtlety.
"Teasing can be a good way to remedy or normalize a slightly clumsy social interaction," she says.
Johnson has plenty of previous form in clumsy on-field interactions.
Even aesthetically, the whole thing feels off: The cinematography in Will's airless newsroom is pallid and clumsy, and the interactions of the characters feel flat and contrived.
I made a clumsy exit from the interaction, but periodically throughout the night she'd find me again and make further drunken passes at me, both physical and verbal.
This is especially crucial in relationships marked by frustration or resentment because those emotions narrow our perceptions and make our interactions more clumsy, rigid, and prone to failure.
In Slate, Jonah Weiner wrote that the film "showcases an obnoxious element of Anderson that is rarely discussed: the clumsy, discomfiting way he stages interactions between white protagonists — typically upper-class élites — and nonwhite foils — typically working-class and poor".
"Social media" is a clumsy term that entangles enriching social interaction with mindless media consumption.
