Sentences with phrase «characters as placeholders»

Gray's sky - high ambitions, however admirable, preclude any sense of nuance or ambiguity, a problem shared by Cahill's film, which treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

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The real estate urbanity is ripe for ridicule, and it's a shame that more wasn't made of this as The Architect instead treads a predictable path with a textbook love triangle, a requisite quirky charlatan, and other stale placeholder characters (such as Colin's dull and doting parents played by John Aylward and Pamela Reed, so perfunctory they don't even have names), none of which are very likeable.

No character designs have been shown as of yet, with various iterations of Monokuma acting as placeholders.