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                   An embarrassing richness of embarrassment
                                        
So I finally broke down and watched [1] Billy Elliot [2] with Spring [3]. And
while there were some very funny and surreal bits in the movie (such as Billy
and Debbie are talking as they walk and Debbie is drawing a stick across the
bricks in a building, then along a line of riot police, like there is nothing
at all wrong about running a stick along a line of riot police, then along
another wall and the bit where Billy's brother is running away from the riot
police and is taking a most torturous route through homes) but it was, as I
was afraid of, an embarrassing number of Embarrassment Scenes that our hero
has to endure. 

And I for one, cannot endure Embarrassment Scenes at all so that made the
movie quite painful for me to watch (and yes, at one point, Spring covered my
eyes so I didn't have to watch one quite painful Embarrassment Scene). 

Overall I found the movie okay if a bit uneven in the handling of comedy and
drama. 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/12/19.2
[2] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0249462
[3] http://www.springdew.com/

Email author at sean@conman.org

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