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Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Apartment -- 1960 -- NR

At its base, this film is a formulaic romantic comedy following the old form faithfully from beginning to end. However, this film does this very, very well.

Although the running time is over 2 hours, I barely noticed the time passing, it was paced so well, and the plot and development continued moving effortlessly from scene to scene, each of which was remarkably well written. A few scenes started running a little unnecessarily long, but they were very few and still served a purpose by doing so.

This film had a very clever plot to begin with, and it continued twisting into something equally clever and heart-wrenching with the girl hung up on someone else, and the boy doing his best to deal with his secret feelings for her.

Everything tied up real nicely without a cheesy line around. Very excellent movie. It did earn itself a best picture for its work.

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