To be so meditative on
characters going about their business, little is actually said by Matthews, as writer, due to very limited extensiveness, if not focal unevenness, that leave development to fail in distinguishing the characters all that much, making it harder to become invested in them.
Obviously, the story takes place in 2015, but much of the context for 2015 and how
characters go about their business is shown in 2002.
Not exact matches
Both films feature clever screenplays with smart
characters, and
go about their
business with good humor.
Tony is pretty much an everyman
character going about his daily
business when he happens to see what he sees, which leads to one of Argento's more memorable set pieces as Tony is trapped between the two glass doors of the art gallery, unable to help the victim inside who is bleeding on the floor and unable to escape outside to fetch help, and his and Julia's situation and relationship is played out in a very natural way, the scenes in their apartment with just the two of them interacting being as integral to the plot as the more violent scenes.
The meandering plot takes in the pre-production period of an amateur production of Twelfth Night which the title
character happens upon by
going about her
business of selling pirated DVDs.
Sterritt **** In place of a conventional plot, this utterly unique Swedish movie offers a series of related episodes
about a
business tycoon on the skids, a magician whose tricks
go wrong, and a motley crew of other
characters.
At this point, she's beaten and tortured while smug looking
characters go about their routine
business.
I'm talking
about that moment when a
character involved in some shady
business gets shot, but he can't
go to the hospital because that will tip off the authorities — so an amateur has to remove the bullet.
Cathryn builds the tension nicely as her
characters go about their mundane, and not so mundane,
business.
Everything's
going swimmingly for the
characters — their
business plan is all
about low - ransom, high - volume kidnappings, and they never hurt the victims — until they nab the wrong guy: a man whose wife has mafia connections.
If caught by the police, the screen will fade to black, and 5 seconds later your
character will be standing outside the police station, minus a few dollars or items, but free to
go about your
business as if nothing happened.
The
character design is excellent as it brings a vast array of fairytale
characters to life such as the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White, the Woodsman, Beauty and the Beast, Mr. Toad, Colin from the Three Little Pigs, Ichabod Crane, Bufkin, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, the Magic Mirror, the Little Mermaid and many more besides as well as non-Fables referred to in short as mundies for mundane as they
go about their own
business, but if suspicion were to be raised for a large group of mundies, then the glamours would fail which is why the Fabletown community need to maintain a low profile, while every
character has their own status from Fabletown Sheriff to Fallen Hero and even Slum Lord, amongst just a few of the titles given.