Sentences with phrase «awkward framing device»

Couple that with the choice of writer / director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) to use Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech as an awkward framing device — combined with shots of the Voyager spacecraft leaving our galaxy — and you get much hysterical ado about not much at all.

The editing is so smart, in fact, that it even pulls off the film's awkward framing device, which sees a young Burroughs writing the novel at his uncle's house.