I didn't really have any idea of the tone of the film when I did it (I think that's pretty apparent), although I did read one of those Sight and Sound-type synopses where they tell you everything that happens, so I was up on the plot and the themes.
Le Week-End, Philomena and Saving Mr Banks all sound awful in synopsis.
If the synopsis sounds dated beyond parody, so be it.
His life story sounded like the synopsis for a post-colonial potboiler of a novel.
The more one describes Beckett's work, the more it sounds like a synopsis of prison".
That is true even of those tales whose subject matter, in synopsis, sounds unappealingly tough.
If the synopsis sounds bleak, that's because it is; despite the apparent urgency there is not yet a standardised scientific methodology for measuring microplastics in environmental samples.
The title "Speech & Debate" is so dull, and the synopsis sounds so deadly — three misfit high school students form a debate club — that they must be ploys to lower expectations.
Her explanation of why she does this sounded like the synopsis of an article: "California girl discovers these crazy grottoes in Europe and thinks, 'This could translate to a New York apartment,' and starts in with a glue gun".
That sounds like the synopsis of a science fiction novel, and it is: in "The City & the City," China Miéville sets a noir thriller in the pixilated, intertwined cities of Ul Qoma and Beszel, each of which denies the very existence of the other.
Opera companies are working to make this supposedly highbrow art form accessible to diverse audiences, through community outreach efforts, education programs that introduce student audiences to what happens behind-the-scenes and by creating a presence on the Internet where families can listen to sound clips, read synopses of story lines, even take a virtual backstage tour of the opera house.
