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Mr. Guadagnino also indulges a couple of speeches about young people’s alleged hypersensitivity that veer into trite middle-aged lament and aren’t really relevant to the action.

It’s a gag that’s funny five times and trite by the sixth, only to round back toward something warm and amiable by the final time it appears.

Only 7 herself at the time of filming, she has none of those trite child-actor tics like over-mannered naivete or phony cheek.

And as this act goes on, he opts for a trite missive about being with the one you love at the end of the world.

He knew exactly what he wanted and why and how to tell me, which sounds trite because, you're a director, so that's what a director does.