fastidiousness

Fans and scholars have retrospectively diagnosed the character as being on the spectrum, and you can easily find essays and discussions as to whether Poirot’s fastidiousness at least borders on OCD.

With Franzen-esque fastidiousness, Choi unpacks each character’s backstory, exposing vanities and delusions in a cool, caustic voice, a 21st century Émile Zola.

The fastidiousness is a continuation of how Fennell approached “Promising Young Woman.”

For the uninitiated, the precision of his compositions, the graceful drift of his camera movements and the fastidiousness of his musical choices can seem restrained to the point of stiffness.

Yet his reputation for fastidiousness and melancholy overlooks how varied his films are — and the wild emotions he explores.