A lot of people felt that way about "Crash," which also seemed as if it had been conceived on a diagram board, from the outside in, rather than the inside out.
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Well, I don't really know what a 'diagram board' is here; perhaps it is the storyboard-- the set of sketches of the story line which the director, writer and production staff work from during the filming, as a sort of guideline. Your quotation suggests to me that the plot and action seem contrived, a mere filming of the preconceived steps (the outside), rather than developing organi
Bold text is usually for emphasis. It generally doesn't hold much more meaning than that.
As an aside: when quoting passages containing bolded text, it's common to include a note identifying whether the emphasis was the writer's own or was added by the person quoting.