Sentences with phrase «allegories about»

[citation needed] By thus manipulating the conventions and structures of figurative painting, he creates corollaries for literary, philosophical, and historical concepts in visual allegories about the nature and implications of perception, meaning, and interpretation in art.

Afterwards, his paintings incorporated African themes with imagery of African - American life to create allegories about life, spirituality, hope and survival, according to the museum.

Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.»

His second novel, Beatrice & Virgil, was a bestseller but didn't quite reach the same level as his debut (allegories about the Holocaust are not necessarily an easy sell).

Heavily soaked in allegories about Greece's recent financial crisis, the film begs to be understood, but if you do not have any background knowledge about the crisis, you are lost from the start.

From a fairy tale mixing bestiality and social justice to a newspaper movie that idealizes power and class privilege to pseudo-folksy allegories about revenge and chaos, Hollywood has transformed once - entertaining genres into self - gratifying lectures.

Showgirls has to be one of the most vitriolic allegories about Hollywood and selling out ever made, and both films are undeniably sexy to boot.

They trade in rote, poorly - expressed allegories about bears, gorillas, balls, carrots, bananas, Jesus and Judas.

As an allegory about humanity's moral freedom, the Tree of Life would represent the instinctual innocence of the animals and very young children.

For example, Genesis» «7 days» of creation isn't 7 days, or 7 ages, but an allegory about human nature as rational (Days 1 & 4 symbolized by the sun, moon, & stars), sensate (Days 2 & 5, symbolized by birds & fish), and physical (symbolized by plants and land).

The next ebook I am working on is a satirical allegory about my quest to become the world's greatest fisherman.

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at world evangelism.

By serving as a politically resonant allegory about the ways differing beliefs can divide friends and family, it also became one of Marvel's first, bonafide tragedies — a story of what happens when good people get their priorities confused.

So when Ed Underwood came out with an allegory about finding God's will, I was excited to read it, especially on a topic like finding God's will.

He has recently published a book with Tyndale called The Trail which is an allegory about finding God's will.

In my satirical allegory about evangelism, I get a hook caught in my ear and hand, but my neighbor is the one at fault.

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at evangelism.

On the other hand, many say that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was very much an allegory about the British experience in WWII, though Tolkien himself denied it.

It is true that Lewis often stated that when he wrote The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he was not intentionally writing an allegory about Jesus.

Thus, in many ways, the story that unfolds here is an allegory about difficulties of combating prejudice and bigotry.

More concretely, though, I don't love that in the final scene all of this wonder and madness could, from one interpretation, be reduced to an allegory about relationships torn apart and then repaired, each person different than before, in subtle or profound ways.

Spare, slow and beautiful, Kelly Reichardt's revisionist Western is an effective allegory about bad leadership in America, but it's as a minimalist tribute to women pioneers that it excels.

In John Ford's rueful 1946 allegory about the human cost of America's new role as global peacekeeper, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) agrees to clean up Tombstone, Arizona, as a pretext for revenging his teenage brother's murder by Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his rustler sons.

The revelations that finally materialize are of an unexpected and downright inexplicable sort, exposing the proceedings as a self - conscious biblical / Grimm's fairy tale allegory about crime and punishment — as well as the cost of refusing to take responsibility for one's actions.

Being about a town where people can't discuss the past — and must always put up a happy front — «Wayward Pines» could be interpreted as an allegory about modern America.

A faith - based family comedy for folks who don't mind having a familiar Biblical scripture overhauled into a contemporary allegory about saving the environment.

The story is a tragic allegory about the interdependence of individuals in Japanese society and how this conflicts with individual choice and desire, and I can't imagine it being remade in this country, where the rightness of the heroine's choice would more likely be regarded as self - evident.

To be inadequately brief, it's a counter-culture allegory about control and tiered societies, but it ends with a message of peace that surely resonated during the Cold War, and still has emotional strength.

A sci - fi allegory about a kid who may possess apocalyptic powers.

He continued to make many more shorts after he won a Video 8 camera in a Comic Relief contest, awarded him for his film I Want to Get Into the Movies, which was an animated allegory about wheelchair access.

A powerful allegory about environmental destruction, this richly atmospheric drama follows a teenage girl as she goes on vacation with her father, a wealthy landowner who becomes obsessed with eliminating the carp fish from his artificial lagoon.

On its surface, Refn's film is a horrific allegory about a young, beautiful model who's harassed by her marginally older, surgically enhanced, and less in - demand rivals, whose gnawing jealousy eventually drives them to — well, let's just say nothing good.

A watery romance that's a cross between a fable, a fairy tale, and a fantasy, The Shape of Water is both a tribute to old Hollywood and an allegory about those on the margins of society, set in 1960s Baltimore during the height of the Cold War.

-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] Like many zombie films, The Cured is a film that can be viewed as a social allegory about fear of «the other.»

In some respect, it's a political allegory about racism and classism in recent French history.

«Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter» is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses «Fargo,» the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life.

Hallucinatory and perturbing, and fiercely acted by Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood, Gerald's Game is a single - setting horror survival story that doubles as a powerful allegory about the specter of sexual abuse.

For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.

The film is apparently an allegory about communism in Czechoslovakia.

As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).

Jon Favreau, who made the first two Iron Man movies, adapted a less established comic book for Cowboys & Aliens, which bombed, before rebounding with the smaller indie film Chef, which he also starred in (playing a frustrated cook in a barely veiled allegory about Favreau struggling to deal with criticism and creative interference).

A black comedy laced with moments of shocking cruelty, the film is a dystopian allegory about the human need to find a mate — a brilliant, if morbid, meditation on relationships in the age of the dating app.

Arthur Miller's classic allegory about the Salem witch trials The Crucible is back on Broadway for a limited engagement currently scheduled to run through July.

A small role in Robert Altman's «Thieves Like Us» brought Fletcher to the attention of director Milos Forman, who gave her the juicy role of Nurse Ratched, the villain in this Ken Kesey allegory about personal freedom that co-starred Jack Nicholson.

The X-Men comic has always been an allegory about social issues.

A fleet allegory about genocide, produced for children (yes, really), it also thrives in all the wonderful grossness of our bodies while featuring one of the most original and hilariously morbid girl characters in years.

The imagery is so on the nose that it's less of an allegory about racism than it is literally about racism, racism allegories being on the nose is probably a good thing these days.

Set in an alternate history in which scientists have found a way to greatly extend people's lives by harvesting human clones whose only purpose is to grow up and donate their vital organs, «Never Let Me Go» seems to be an allegory about the elusive nature of life and death.

This thoughtful allegory about the dangers of industrialization includes clever technology and nods to familiar places.

Part allegory about the shifting nature of being, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises, Little Nothing spans the beginning of a new century, the disintegration of ancient superstitions, and the adoption of industry and invention.