In Gone to the Forest, it allows her to portray schematic character representatives and interactions; the tenor is dark, folktale reportage, with the slightly increased novelistic complications of gender, family and race.
The schematic character of this tradition does not impair the historicity of a migration to Egypt, an enslavement by Egyptians, and an escape from Egypt under an inspired leader by some component of the later Israelite tribes.
A refinement in gestural technique characterizes Raymond Hendler's development from the heavy impasto and tonal graduation of his numbered 1950's oils to the schematic character of "Port of Call," a mid-1980's canvas that exploits the crispness of acrylic without sacrificing painterly energy.
It takes a writer of significant qualities to avoid such a story becoming schematic, its characters reduced to representations of positions and outcomes.
But "Tender," while sporadically well written, is too schematic, in both characters and situations, to make us care.
If anything, the skill with which Bier interlocks her themes is also the cause of the movie's besetting fault — an airless sense of the schematic, in which both characters and objects are used to engineer a moral debate.
There are moments when the humanism of "A Separation" feels a bit schematic, as if the characters were pulled from a box of available types rather than painted in the shades of life.
The dramatic situations and characters are too schematic, and too much strains credulity (2 00).
The positive-negative terminology left little room for ambiguity, but since mainstream American cinema rarely afforded black characters complexity, this schematic vision stuck around, especially among older blacks.
