Sentences with phrase «through flaws in the characters»

Through flaws in the characters» pasts, there is an unprecedented strength that is pulled out of them in such dire moments.

Not exact matches

In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture - shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

Fans of the Richler work and of Paul Giamatti, who would go on to garner a Golden Globe for his fine performance, in general should find more to love than the common viewer, as the character of Barney himself is flawed and not particularly fun to watch as he goes through bouts of alcoholism, depression, philandering and narcissism that has you questioning just how such lovely women could ever fall for him.

Gosling's performance as the wounded soul with pure ambitions, flawed judgment, and passion that could turn to tenderness or violence bubbling just beneath his cool façade anchors the first section and carries through as a phantom defining so many of the characters» actions in the other acts of the movie.

From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating position women had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional worlds.

A perfect distillation of character and mood expressed in silence and in shouts; of emotion visualized through quick cuts and slow motion into a tone poem of stark eloquence with nary a flaw in its running time.