inexorability

“Bobby really didn’t need Lombardy since their styles were so dissimilar. Lombardy was an enormously gifted, intuitive positional player but not a well-prepared player like Bobby. Bobby’s strength was the inexorability of his tactics.”

“The deliberateness of the styling makes the story’s predictability feel more like inexorability,” he added.

One way in which Diao’s vision hews to classicism is in accepting the inexorability of fate, as film noir requires.

A chilling portrait of how fanaticism can grow and be enabled, this is a matter-of-fact film that moves with an awful inexorability toward its foregone conclusion.

The deliberateness of the styling makes the story’s predictability feel more like inexorability.