And at one point you said to me, oh, this book is darker, you know, tonally than your previous book.

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But if we are to be honest, those of us who reside in old Europe, there is something about our understanding of the word that is tonally different.

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While these interchanges surprisingly do not interrupt the rhythm and flow of the objective cinematic experience, it makes the film tonally erratic, and the intellectual macro story continually pulls us out of emotional micro stories that provide the meat of the whole thing.

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