Plod

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to walk heavily 

or 

move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.  



2. to proceed in a tediously slow manner: The play just plodded along in the second act. 

3. to work with constant and monotonous perseverance; drudge. 



–verb (used with object) 

4. to walk heavily over or along. 



–noun 

5. the act or a course of plodding.

6. a sound of a heavy tread.





　

Austere, underlit, uncompromisingly lackadaisical at three hours, and anachronistic in a half dozen ways, Regular Lovers is the first New York theatrical opening for the veteran French avant-gardist Philippe Garrel. Avant-garde, of course, is a relative term: When Garrel and Michel Auder, another Warhol-smitten French filmmaker, showed their "underground movies" here in 1970, Jonas Mekas called them "very sad cries from the past, one almost pities them." 



anachronistic

時代錯誤的



Regular Lovers celebrates the events of May '68 with a long (long) street-fighting nocturne and an even lengthier sequence of police pursuit. It's exhilarating and futile. "Can we make the revolution for the working class despite the working class?" one comrade wonders. 



The answer may be a foregone conclusion but Regular Lovers plods on dutifully, exhibiting the same glum perseverance as Garrel's career. Although the distinguished William Lubtchansky shot the film, its frissons are rarely visual. More surprising than any of Garrel's set-ups is the abrupt introduction, amid more random piano doodles, of the opening chords from "I Am the Walrus." 



nocturne

–noun Music. 

1. a piece appropriate to the night or evening. 

2. an instrumental composition 

of 

a dreamy or pensive character. 

glum

–adjective

sullenly 

or 

silently gloomy; dejected.





harness

trot

horse, go at a gait between walk and run

stagger

swagger

strut

show off, to strut one's stuff

and his world-weary [strut] is at least as eloquent.

balk

He balked [at] making the speech.  

The [horse] balked when I tried to lead it across the bridge

plod

slow, heavy, laborious

The mailman plods his [weary] way.

trudge

Origin: tread and drudge 

spiritless but steady and doggedly persistent

As he [trudges] across the wilderness, Block is visited by Death (Bengt Ekerot), [garbed] in the traditional black robe. 

Strut