There's also a mounting seriousness of tone that doesn't sit entirely well with the plot's concatenation of coincidences and unlikelihoods. |
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The plot's got a great deal of emotional heft to it, but never descends into mindless sentimentalism. |
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The camera's frequent slow dollies backwards, from a small detail to the wider scene, echo the plot's revelations and the inexorability of fate. |
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Some of the plot's key assumptions are extremely unlikely, others fantastically illogical. |
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The ending's a little too sweet for my taste, there are oddities and the plot's conventional. |
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He does well to make these scenes as tolerable as they are, but all the film gains from the plot's paraphernalia is a couple of superficial twists. |
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Unfortunately, as interesting as this conclusion is, the entire premise is built upon tricking the audience until the plot's bait-and-switch can be revealed. |
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Subplot, a story line enclosed within the principal story to provide relief from the main plot's tension, add character dimension, etc. |
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Catesby convinced him that despite the plot's failure, an armed struggle was still a real possibility. |
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Most of the conspirators fled from London as they learned of the plot's discovery, trying to enlist support along the way. |
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This made 1605 the first year the plot's failure was celebrated. |
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