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How fickle is woman.

















fickle



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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    易變的,無常的

                      The weather's so fickle in summer.

                      夏日的天氣如此多變。

                      He is a fickle lover.

                      他是個用情不專的愛人。













mercurial



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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    (常作M-)【羅神】莫丘里神的;【天】水星的

          2.    敏捷的;精明的

          3.    水銀的

          4.    (情緒)易變的



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    【藥】汞製劑













capricious



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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    善變的

          2.    任性的



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–adjective 

1. subject to, 

led by, 

or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic: He's such a capricious [boss] I never know how he'll react.  



erratic

Fray



2. Obsolete. fanciful or witty. 

 

—Synonyms 

1. variable, flighty, mercurial. See fickle.



Fickle, inconstant, capricious, vacillating describe persons or things that are 

not firm or steady in affection, behavior, opinion, or loyalty. 





Fickle implies an underlying perversity as a cause for the lack of stability: 



the fickle seasons, [disappointing] as often 

as they [delight]; 



once [lionized], 

now [rejected] by a fickle public. 





Inconstant suggests an innate disposition to change: 



an inconstant [lover], flitting from affair to affair. 





Capricious implies unpredictable changeability 

arising from sudden whim: 



a capricious [administration] constantly and [in]explicably changing its signals; 

a capricious and astounding reversal of [position]. 





Vacillating means changeable due to lack 

of resolution or firmness: 



an [indecisive], vacillating [leader], apparently incapable of a sustained course of action. 





—Antonyms 

1. steady, constant, consistent.





　



Gioventù falls short of perfection, 

but only by a [notch] or two. 



The sequential transitions in the first half feel a bit jerky (急動的); as for substories, Giordana virtually abandons his gripping opener after he sets it up, 



which leaves us initially [bewildered] 



(though one could argue, of course, that such stories are seldom resolved in the everyday world, and typically do trail off, sans resolution). And even though the filmmaker unexpectedly resumes this thread at a later stage, such is not an isolated weakness: 



several points arise 

[when] so much time passes in the [context] of the story 



without updates on one particular subplot or another that we 



scratch our heads [incredulously].



Also, the pace lags a bit in the second half -- a few conversations drag and fail to push the narrative forward significantly. And, cosmetically, Giordana and co. handle the aging of the actors 



with great clumsiness. 



But, when held next to this picture's many extraordinary achievements, one can easily overlook these minor flaws. To disclose any of Gioventù's fascinating story developments here would be grossly unfair and cruel, except to note that 



Giordana feels unafraid to 



courageously toy with the form and defy the "first ten minutes rule" of screenwriting by capriciously injecting a fantasy element into one of the momentous, heart-rending closing scenes -- a move that suggests influence by the 1990 Milou en Mai.  





relinguish (compelled)

cf. renounce (formally, voluntary)

abandon (further)

rebuke

reproach (faultfinding, shaming)

rebuke (formally, officially)

scold (at length, irritation)

reprove (milder)

Convulsion