It never felt too forced or overly exaggerated, like the romance was for the characters not the readers.
I was still put off by its exaggerated sense of self-romance, but I understood it differently now, colored by the context of Bolaño's massive textual body, his elocution, and his continual sense of shaping space, creating body and contour out of air.
Almodóvar's tone is not like anyone else's; the film has the exaggerated plot of an absurdist Hollywood romance, and even when it loses its beat (after a murder) there's always something happening.
Yet to most English readers the term romance does carry implications of the wonderful, the miraculous, the exaggerated, and the wholly ideal.
An exaggerated and romanticised account is also a central event in Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
Seinfeld's exaggerated delivery gives the movie some bounce, but there's little cohesion to the script, which involves captive bees making honey for an evil entrepreneur, courtroom high jinks, and interspecies romance.
But these are exaggerated.
He exaggerated only slightly.
