Bleary

 



Chloë Sevigny is bleary-eyed.

















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–adjective

1. (of the eyes 

or 

sight) blurred or dimmed, as from sleep or weariness. 



2. indistinct; unclear: The day begins with a bleary view of one's world. 

3. fatigued; worn-out. 









 　

If there's one thing that can be gleaned [from] The Brown Bunny, it's that Vincent Gallo is a damn considerate turn-signaler. For all but a small fraction of the film's 92 minutes, Gallo -- the film's director, cinematographer, star, and purported writer (as if this mostly wordless opus required a script) -- 



fuels up, buckles up, accelerates, decelerates, passes cars, changes lanes, changes shirts, brakes gently, and mellows out to the sounds of Gordon Lightfoot on the in-dash stereo, not with the nihilist abandon that befits an enfant terrible but with all the reserve and decorum of an AARP booster. 



Forget what you've read about Gallo's rock-star girlfriends, his cancer vendettas on critics who dis his film, or even the hardcore sex act administered in the film's final moments. What you will learn from The Brown Bunny is that Vincent Gallo is a great driver. 



Whether or not he's a natural-born filmmaker is still [up] for debate. With Gallo calling -- not to mention costuming, designing, cutting, and shooting -- every shot, The Brown Bunny ends up being an out-of-focus road trip to nowhere, an exercise in monotony with a Sixth Sense coda. 



It must be said the film accurately conveys the wonder and boredom of cross-country driving, with all its gorgeous, bleary vistas and splattered bugs on the windshield. 



Unfortunately, Gallo has to go and muck up his abstract art-school experiment with such narrative-filmmaking clichés as the loveless lone wolf, the tragic backstory, and the empty titular metaphor. 



And when the film's raison d'être is finally revealed to be little more than a this-is-your-girlfriend-on-drugs cautionary tale, even the most conservative viewers will no doubt balk [at] the simplicity of the message.





slumber

to sleep, esp. lightly; [doze] [drowse]

to slumber the afternoon [away].  

to slumber cares [away]. 

She gazed with affection at his slumbering [form].

dormant

suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action

a dormant [volcano]

inert

dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move

an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]

sluggish 

slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously

a sluggish [stream] [brain] 

torpid

suspended physical powers, hibernate

[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather. 

But too often, the movie [sinks] into an [a]morphous state of emotional [torpor] 

Languid