Life decayed towards “a state of absolute nothingness”, while his characters, clinging on, tried urgently and clumsily to communicate their feelings to each other.

当他电影中的主人公想要抓住生活，迫切的试图要彼此沟通却处处碰壁时，生活就在滑向一种“绝对空虚的状态”。

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Life decayed towards "a state of absolute nothingness", while his characters, clinging on, tried urgently and clumsily to communicate their feelings to each other.

生命渐渐逝去，进入一种“万事皆空”的状态，而他的人物，仍然坚持不懈，竭尽全力，相互之间笨拙地交流感情。

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There are some dry patches while Mr Stiller elaborates his premise, but he is really setting up his characters, who become very funny in the second half.

影片中有些时候，斯蒂勒不动声色地阐述着他的前提，这样恰好对这些角色起到了欲扬先抑的作用：在影片后半段，这些角色都变得极富喜剧效果。

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His films require us to live with his characters for a while before we decide who they really are.

NEWYORKER: Stranger, The (Agantuk)

His fiction was immature but promising, extolling male bonding while describing unsatisfactory love affairs between his male and female characters.

ECONOMIST: French writers

Her years of experience researching, teaching, directing and acting in his plays are integral to the polished, intellectual appeal of "Women of Will, " in which she analyzes and enacts quite a few of Shakespeare's female characters while correlating their evolution to possible developments in his personal life.

WSJ: Review: Captivating, eloquent 'Women of Will'