| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - it is hilarious for a while; also anxiety-provoking, in an interesting way, and even moving, as Val, or Val/Woody, becomes ever more helpless, and looks shockingly old and sad. (And is still accepted as a cockeyed genius, like the retarded gardener played by Peter Sellers in Being There.) But comedy must be grounded in some sort of reality, and we sense a fundamental falsehood here.
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