Some filmmakers don’t consider gravity any more than the average American does, but in a precious few cases—Apatow!—we get to witness a filmmaker grappling with gravity in every frame. Had I not watched This Is 40 upside down—by the way, it is no accident that upside down it is This Is 04. Children having children! Right?—I never would have caught the deeper meaning of Paul Rudd sitting on the toilet while talking to Leslie Mann. He is literally keeping his shit from flying all over the room. One can see he has been directed by Apatow to pretend to be sitting casually on the toilet, and there
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