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Emphasis onall, I guess.
He falls for Charlotte, whom he will one day marry.
(What happened to Roy after that?
Well, he ran into Carl and Sandy.)
This is, what, the first third of this 138-minute film?
The litany of awfulness is surely not entirely pointless or even really a miscalculation.
And yet we feelnothing.
But he knows his way around actors, and the performances almost get us there.
So the problem withThe Devil All the Timeisnt a lack of competence or even really vision.
Might the sadism have been mitigated or made, well, interesting if there was more to this universe?
Some sense of atmosphere, or grace, or joy?
We never really get to know any of these characters aside from their villainy and/or victimhood.
Theyre paper fish in a cardboard barrel.
