| This is the story of an extremely obese, rather immature, yet very bright and talented young man, and of his world and the people in it | |
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| Still, because he is a 'good boy', he plays on the soundless piano, and takes weekly lessons from a piano teacher so eccentric that she will only allow him to strum out the notes on her dining room table |
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| My only criticism is that an early scene where Sarah Polley goes along with a video-camera-toting couple gave me a chill I interpreted it as the last we would see of her character |
| Contrasting selected scenes from the film with their samples in the ad would be an education in the power of editing | Again, Sarah Polley is especially centered yet oddly authentic as a panhandler |
Had CBC simply let one scene run in its entirety, it would have represented the film a lot better.
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