Ms. Shue is no Stanwyck, of course, but she bounces from one narrative right angle to the next with melodramatic vigor, laughing and weeping and tugging at the increasingly bewildered Don, who seems happy to yield.
The details presented in the lawsuit read as: "Factors such as composition, background, wardrobe, lighting, narrative, camera angle, decor, and objects depicted are strikingly similar .
While the story is somewhat schematic (you can plot the vectors of the narrative from the angles of the opening moves), the performances are absolutely lovely: Spall in brilliant form as the sardonic but inspiring maths teacher, Mr Humphreys; Hawkins hiding the pain of her son's isolation behind forced smiles and worried eyes; Eddie Marsan on the money as Team UK's ultra-competitive leader.
At first you cast around for a narrative hook, a "Huckleberry Finn" angle or some significance in the fact that one man has his leg in a cast.
She likens him to a "great cinema director" who approaches an "extraordinary narrative canvas from different angles".
Her books all traverse similar narrative terrain from different angles — a female artist's frustrated career arc, her childless and nomadic marriage.
Read: "Tri Angle Records' Secret Narrative of 'Strange, Unknowable, Icky Things'".
Just reading aloud to a smart friend sometimes gives me a new angle on the narrative and a burst of energy.
