The actress is quite funny in that predicament, but her character is too well grounded to be believable as a social reject.
More often, he's distilling what's funny about a predicament into expressive nuggets of dismay or discomfort, like the infirm whine of that African Cessna, or the suppressed howl of those prey to the "uncontrollable oily discharge" that accompanies certain US slimming treatments.
All he's missing is a pair of horns and a pointy tale to resemble cartoon devils; there's nothing funny about his predicament, but to show it in all its real-life agonies would make "The Lost Weekend" and D. W. Griffith's "The Struggle" look like, well, "Blonde Inspiration".
But there's nothing funny about this current predicament.
In fact, Lartigau extracts spirited, often funny material from the predicament of a heroine obliged to obtain everything from cattle feed to thrush cream for her folks, while constructing a most empathetic portrait of deafness: consider Damiens' mayoral bid, launched on the slogan, "I hear you".
The way Davis writes this predicament is so funny — and I love her for that.
The predicament might be funny if it were an isolated incident.
After Anton Chekhov, perhaps no writer saw the universe's casual injustice and brutal indifference more clearly than Waugh – there are very few more coldly objective and coldly funny visions of the human predicament.
(Dargis)20100128 'NINE' (PG-13, 1 52) Nein! (Scott)20100128 ★ 'POLICE, ADJECTIVE' (No rating, 1 53, in Romanian) The second feature by the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu ("12 08 East of Bucharest") is, at first glance, a modest, dourly funny procedural about the ethical predicament of a young detective.
The predicament would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
