At the same time, it also feels evasive.
Mr. Condit's performance felt evasive, insincere and completely self-interested.
That is why, in spite of its wind-chill factor and visual splendour, the film feels evasive, as if it is trying to bury its darker themes under the snow.
And the new waiting-for-the-end movies, skillful as some of them are, feel peculiarly evasive; a wholly personalized apocalypse is an apocalypse that is, to put it plainly, too damn small.
It seems to be straining for the universality of myth, but feels only evasive.
Written by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon and directed by Norman Jewison, the film is the story of Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, the black boxer from New Jersey who spent years in prison on a false murder charge... "The Hurricane" feels false, evasive, and factually very thin.
The absence of perspective that gives the film its antic rhythm — we are so close to the characters that we can't see past them — also feels somewhat evasive.
And in the absence of such arguments, the pro-choice response to Gosnell feels either evasive and euphemistic, or else logically consistent in ways that tend to horrify the unconvinced — and in either case, inadequate to the challenge his case presents to the cause of abortion rights.
It feels both evasive, and somehow more built in.
And while the rich palette and varied arrangements are welcome, they also put load-bearing pressure on Mr. Sheff's songs, which feel intended more for evasive maneuvers.
