Sentences with phrase «useless framing device»

Writer - director Ben Lewin brings on William H. Macy as a local priest who hears O'Brien's explicit confession, but it's a useless framing device, ostensibly affirming O'Brien's religious conviction but really there to earn titters from the audience over his naughty escapades.

It seems like Depp was never told «no» to any of his ideas, and the film has to indulge the actor's notion that audiences wouldn't be able to get enough of his character, so we're also forced to endure him in the useless framing device.