Not exact matches
Remember, you want a gentle simmer rather
than a
violent boil — if you cook the soup
at too high a heat, you'll
end up with cloudy broth and overcooked chicken.
For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially
violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris
at the
end of «Taxi Driver») rather
than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.
By doing things this way, the movie
ends up having nothing in the way of tension or mystery, the whole thing
ending up being more of a pretentious talk - a-thon character study
than the
violent, bullet - riddled revenge thriller hinted
at early on.