The descriptions have the triteness of screenplay boilerplate, as if the author expected a movie director to evoke the scenes he sets.

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The other problem is that over the past two or three decades we have corrupted our film language in many ways by indulging in over-emphasis, sentimentality, repetition, over-simplification, triteness and being utterly conformist.

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