I'll also assume that Catherine Keener had more
expository scenes filmed but were edited for time.
Not exact matches
Not only are these
scenes a lot longer and more
expository than they need to be, but they give the sense of a
film crew fighting against the material; the camera chases after the story, rather than grabbing it by the scruff of the neck like a proper adaptation would.
The long
expository scene looks like the beginning of a downbeat, miserablist
film whose only object is to tell the story of a married man attempting to recover from depression through rebuilding friendship and re-entering the world of work.
He went to the trouble of
filming expository scenes that others might have excised for budgetary considerations, such as Clair's divorce proceedings and grainy home movies of hippies at the commune.