Gus Van Sant's new film, the unusual and remarkable "Elephant," has a premise so simple that in the abstract it borders on the banal.
This unusual and remarkable film has a premise so simple that, in the abstract, it borders on the banal: plotless and stubbornly resistant to conventional narrative structure, the movie has its camera follow students around the halls and grounds of a high school in Portland, Ore., for a day until violence erupts.
"It seems to be about damaged and selfish people," one of David Gates's narrators says, voicing the premise for this remarkable collection of stories and a novella.
It is testament to Hagy's narrative instincts that we arrive so quickly at the novel's engaging premise: When a remarkable bay filly is offered for sale, the aptly named Will cobbles a chance encounter with a kingpin of the polo horse business into a plan.
Feldman writes: "So the upshot [of my reply to skepticism] is that if we take the [skeptical] argument to be about practical knowledge, it has a remarkable conclusion, but an indefensible premise.
But he also praises Mr. Zemeckis's directing style, saying he has "a remarkable ability to take a preposterous premise and turn it into a finely-tuned farcical machine".
Challenging this premise is one of the remarkable accomplishments of Grant Wacker, a historian of American religion at Duke University, in "Heaven Below" (Harvard University Press, $35), a study of the first generation of Pentecostals.
It is these mechanical wonders, scattered about the premises, that make the storefront so remarkable on the rural highway.
Who won't talk loudly to no one in particular, or if they do will at least be in the middle of some remarkable observation that makes the passing stranger check their premises.
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