Even in 1994, when Brazil and Italy went through extra-time and all the way to a shoot-out, the artificial conclusion came after a match of stunning uneventfulness. |
However, because of this relative uneventfulness, the infernal events that unfold at the end of the film are all the more shocking. |
All a bit much, perhaps, for the drama's more traditional listeners who once revelled in its very uneventfulness. |
Certainly the uneventfulness of her outward circumstances belies the intensity of her interior life. |
Tea was recuperative, it made things better, or it celebrated uneventfulness, emphasising that nothing was wrong. |
Stuff happens — a marriage here, a child there — yet Scherfig has no option but to choose sequence over consequence, and the movie soon subsides into a desolate prairie of uneventfulness. |