It's easy to make a comedy about flawed people, but Baumbach and Gerwig have done something harder —
finding emotional truth in those flaws.
The two actors also
find the emotional truths of their characters, compelling us to pay attention and care about them as they work to connect with each other.
Understand the Teen Experience: Another tip is to
find the emotional truth of a teenage experience.
Not exact matches
Considering evidence and observation are the ways in which we learn things to be true in the real world, I
find it ironical that for the ultimate
truth we are to ask no questions, observe no evidence and make only an
emotional connection.
I've
found time and time again that when I help them uncover the
truth,
emotional attachments or making something else a priority is generally at the root of the clutter,» says Petit.
Both love and politics elicit intense
emotional responses from most of us, and we set out to
find the
truth - is love really bipartisan?
We
find scenes that seem to exist just for their heavy - handed
emotional impact — usually those where «noble
truths» are spoken — and we encounter turgid sappiness at times.
But there is nothing even deliciously bad or even fun bad in Shall We Dance, you won't
find a moment of
emotional truth, anywhere, nowhere, not in Richard Gere's twinkly demeanor, or in Susan Sarandon's googly eyeballs.
The
emotional climax of Restless Dreams comes when James Sunderland bursts into the hotel suite where he delusionally expects his wife to be waiting for him, only to
find an empty room and the cold, hard
truth that she's gone forever.
In the film, LaMendola
finds humanity and humor, as well as an
emotional climax as the trial and the
truth are revealed.
In the case of Inside Llewyn Davis, this consistent pull toward bad luck gives the film a rare sort of melancholy, one that avoids sentimentality and pity, as well as outright cynicism, to
find a strange, unmistakable
truth about the
emotional bruises and physical suffering of life as a human or, even worse, an artist.
After Penny
finds a beautiful marble in her neighbor's yard, she is faced with a moral dilemma, explored with
emotional truth in four brief chapters.