There's no need to do a Pete-Wells-Guy-Fieri thing here, but it's enough to say that the movie, which reportedly cost sixty million dollars to make, features such dialogue as "Neat" and "Cool beans" and such scenes as a man yanking out his own eyeball, another man being fellated by a burro, and Harvey Keitel having his head knocked off by a shovel.
The way the conversations work in Oxenfree is a neat and simple mechanic, dialogue options each assigned to a single button press, and it feels right at home in the game's gorgeous and scary setting.
Honour killing, prostitution, sexual mores, political graft are the backdrop of this fascinating collection of anecdotes and reportage, mostly written for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, peppered with Mr Szablowski's neat observations and finely recorded dialogue.
Smith has stories to tell and, in the tradition of Peter Carey and Salman Rushdie, she just gets on with them; the dialogue is pitch-perfect, the comedy neat and underplayed".
Other moments are jarring, with the clumsy insertion of black humor into fraught dialogue, or plot contrivances that are too neat to be believed.
David Eyre and Robert Ward, who wrote the script, from Ward's book, may be writers — the dialogue and most of the incidents have a neat, dry humor — but they're not screenwriters.
Furthermore, we have a neat explanation of Berkeley's above-noted leap in the Dialogues from the claim that God must cause our ideas to the claim that our ideas must exist in God.
But Coward's comedy also combines neat symmetry, as each guest pairs off with the wrong person, with slim dialogue in which every word falls perfectly into place.
