Shot with 16 mm black and white film, the narrative unfolds beautifully with provocative angles bringing to life the characters of his iconic photographic series documenting the drugs, sex and youthful
aimlessness of Clark's hometown.
While the director tries to juice up the proceedings with some Hollywood blockbuster style action sequences,
the aimlessness of it all becomes apparent at about the movie's halfway mark.
series of scenes: Sam (Kevin Kline), in the midst of a forty - year marriage, is living the retired life in Florida, though he has a burst of energy in him that suggests he may not be relishing
the aimlessness of post-work life; Archie (Morgan Freeman), also retired, is coming off a stroke, and finds himself tediously recuperating in the New Jersey home of his too - vigilant, married - with - a-kid son (Michael Ealy); Paddy (Robert De Niro) is the only one still living in Brooklyn, though he spends his days cooped up in his ragged apartment, mourning the death of his cherished wife, Sophie (from the prologue); and Billy (Michael Douglas), a successful, high - priced Malibu attorney, has taken the unprecedented step of proposing marriage to his much - younger girlfriend while presenting the eulogy at his mentor's funeral.
Perhaps the best way to approach All These Sleepless Nights, then, is not as documentary or even as drama, but as an abstract feature - length snapshot of youth in transition from the devil - may - care
aimlessness of adolescence, to the initial agonized stirrings of adulthood.
Admittedly, I did chuckle a lot throughout the film, but the self - indulgent
aimlessness of the film's «plot» always had me asking the question «what is the point?»
What we need to engage in are acts of imagination that penetrate the apparent opacity and
aimlessness of the historical present, and reveal how persons and institutions are accomplishing their destinies in relation to the sovereign God of history.
In short, colleges and universities face ethical difficulties primarily because they are reflections of the moral
aimlessness of our society as a whole.
Colleges and universities face ethical difficulties primarily because they are reflections of the moral
aimlessness of our society as a whole.
Not exact matches
Those who have their «heads hidden in the sand - piles
of uneasiness» are deemed as os - trac - ized lemmings blindly running to and leaping off the cliffs
of «dutied»
aimlessness.
Perhaps the sins
of «male arrogance» and «female
aimlessness» will come into clearer light.
An exception to the general
aimlessness is Adam Gellin, a scholarship student who, by following all the rules and acing every test, hopes to ride a Rhodes scholarship to the top
of the capitalist heap.
The consequence was a profound conviction that, while he did not know all the explanation
of suffering, there was an explanation, and that beyond the solutions he could see lay not chaos and
aimlessness but order and purpose.
His debut album, American Teen, can best be described as a millennial anthem
of shrugging
aimlessness.
, can best be described as a millennial anthem
of shrugging
aimlessness.
It is sadly true that the «best» are slowly withdrawing their commitment to an increasingly philistine academic culture and its institutional forms, filling merely the outward requirements
of their roles and suffering the malaise
of aimlessness and false consciousness.
Faculty and students continue to operate in a spiritual climate where even the best are filling merely the outward requirements
of their roles and suffering the malaise
of aimlessness and false consciousness.
Such groups can resist the
aimlessness produced by the end
of utopias suffered after the «collapse»
of socialism.
But that kind
of aimlessness could end up being counterproductive.
When the sides met in January, his remit was strictly confined to the flanks and there was an
aimlessness to his crossing borne out by the fact he completed just 40 percent
of his attempted passes.
Another
of these useless ideas that had gotten into this fickle son's head — further proof
of his
aimlessness.
Retardation to momentum is further well - secured by unevenness to pacing, because, at 106 minutes, this film's seemingly tight runtime is achieved through a combination
of thinning and bloating, placing little attention to exposition, and plenty
of attention to repetitious, almost episodic filler, which wear down momentum until
aimlessness sets in, slowly, but surely wearing down dramatic bite.
If you're willing to go along with the show's carefully conceived
aimlessness, it has the pull
of a book
of inter-connected short stories.
«Permanent Midnight,» set in Los Angeles with an eye toward grit and a sense
of aimlessness in paradise, is frequently painful to watch.
I suppose charm graces a sense
of ambition, but even palpable passion is limited in a cold directorial performance by Matthews and Katie Graham, who have effective moments, but whose limp, perhaps quiet atmosphere stiffens pacing and makes it easier to notice
aimlessness, while also thinning intrigue so close into dissipation that other shortcomings, including - nay - especially the natural ones, essentially impossible to ignore.
Steve Kloves has the task
of capturing the final book's
aimlessness and drift without allowing the narrative to be somehow infected by it
Kloves has the task
of capturing the sense
of aimlessness and drift
of the final book's plot without allowing the narrative to be somehow infected by it.
She still suffers from the same kind
of aimlessness found in Girls and countless «mumblecore» films, but there's never any pretense going on with her.
Out
of the
aimlessness, a sense
of purpose is growing.
She's wracked with survivor's guilt, depression, and the kind
of can't - get - out -
of - bed
aimlessness that makes holding down a job difficult.
Mer, who acquits himself nicely in the film as his protagonist's gifted - with - gab best friend, captures a sense
of aimlessness among these kids, who live in a luxurious post-apartheid environment and don't fully know what to do with themselves, or with real emotion and problems money can't fix.
Opening as a funny fish - out -
of - water premise, the script now flounders in a sea
of contradiction and
aimlessness.
James White (played by Christopher Abbott) is a 21 - year - old whose life is in a kind
of disarray that's sometimes indistinguishable, at least from the outset, from typical millenial
aimlessness.
David Thompson parroted these claims in his New Biographical Dictionary
of Film when he stated that Wise's «better credits are only the haphazard products
of artistic
aimlessness given rare guidance» and complained that his filmography was merely a «restless, dispiriting search among subject areas.»
A heady topic distracted from by too many pointless discoveries
of broken glasses and old bikes, none
of which go anywhere in a picture marked mainly by its
aimlessness.
A great deal
of this thriller from actor / writer / director Joel Edgerton works, sometimes impeccably so, but a combination
of plot holes and a slight
aimlessness do weigh it down.
You might expect that such thin storytelling might lead to
aimlessness, but Dark Souls is anything but aimless, in part due to the structure and design
of its large, seamless world.
With Veblen we also get an affecting picture
of the
aimlessness many twenty - and thirty - somethings experience if they haven't found their way into a traditional career: «She'd accomplished things, hadn't she?
With Veblen we also get an affecting picture
of the
aimlessness many twenty - and thirty - somethings experience if they haven't found their way into a traditional career.
If, like me, that makes you cringe at the potential hours
of minecraft - style
aimlessness that lie ahead, worry you not about that either.
Influenced by Taoist philosophy, Fung questions the idea
of progress and the culture
of overworking, and draws attention to slowness, idleness, and
aimlessness by exploring what doing nothing entails.
Thiebaud's paintings, like good novels, use telling details to draw us in, so as to obliquely convey some harsh intimations
of aimlessness and loss,
of the insignificance
of human wishes.
Lixenberg's video installation captures life in Imperial Courts in a spectrum from drama and play to
aimlessness and routine, enhancing our grasp
of the normalcy
of life in a part
of the American inner - city habitually derided as aberrant and extreme.
Unfortunately, implementation
of cleaner technologies has been thwarted by federal
aimlessness.