Sentences with phrase «oil derricks pump»

Oil derricks pump forlornly in the background as the town struggles to survive, making Arash's fancy, shiny car seem like the most pointed of anachronisms.
Heir to the testosterone cinema of Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, Berg's films also find a kind of poetry in opposition, with Friday Night Lights» establishing shots of Texas's huge, glowering big sky country and insensate oil derricks pumping in silhouette set against the mayfly quickening of young men frozen for an instant that is, for many of them, meant to last a lifetime.

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In Time as Perspective it is not clear whether the landscape with its rhythmically pumping oil derricks is a historical shot or a vision of the future.
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