Premise: Solondz's writing doesn't cut very deep, but it does swing wide, smashing taboos on all sides--the film is the dark side of There's Something About Mary . And in some ways, it couldn't have had a more fitting launch.

Hypothesis: Solondz's writing was patterned after There's Something About Mary.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: it's loud and repetitious without having a great deal of meaning now i do like folk song um and there have been some nice folk songs over the years that you know kind of still hang around

Hypothesis: I have never heard any good folk songs.
Answer: no

Premise: But Michael Sragow, writing in the New Times Los Angeles , calls Kissed ridiculously earnest.

Hypothesis: According to Sragow he was a pathological liar.
Answer: no

Premise: Then in 1017 Benedictine monks started work on the flat-roofed abbey you can see in the Bayeux Tapestry, propped up on a platform with blocks of brown granite brought from the Channel islands of Chausey 40 km (25 miles) away.

Hypothesis: The abbey was constructed by monks in 1017.
Answer: yes