Sentences with phrase «as an allegory about»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

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).

Allegory in Christian usage means interpreting the Old Testament as a book about Christ.

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.

«Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child - psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out «allegories» to embody them.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

Pilgrim's Progress, cited by Braithwaite, was an influential guide to behaviour only because it was read as an allegory faithfully representing the way of life recommended by the Bible and supported by the claims therein about God and the world.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

And then the third person is Peter Usher, who we talked about, who had this rather extravagant theory of Hamlet as an allegory.

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.

Criticism is all about reading and looking for subtexts and allegory, as you do.

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.

An all - ages experience is an extremely rare thing if you think about it, but as I said earlier, if you present an audience, no matter how old, with that spark of awe; if you trust younger minds with more challenging ideas in their allegories, they will rise to the occasion.

Arrival, with its handwringing worthiness and easy answers, certainly meets these criteria as escapist balm for the masses, but this analysis ignores the fact that M Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs is not just a superior film about alien invasion (funnier, darker, more cinematic), but also a stronger allegory for the apocalyptic fever that has gripped America and, by extension, the world.

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.

The political allegory component of the story isn't particularly compelling — it's been interpreted as a commentary on the hysteria of Trump era — but as a movie about parental anxieties, it's steely and effective.

-- 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.»

«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.

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 killerAs 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 killeras 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).

Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev's («Leviathan») Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating...

Long gone are the origins of comic books which served as allegory to modern social situations, these films are only about violence, hero's repeatedly saving the day and leave the intelligent moviegoer with little substance.

The main competition is filled with movies about the ailing world of limited means and unjust distribution of wealth, and after the bizarre and derivative allegory of labor in Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor and Amir Manor's astutely titled Epilogue, which played like Michael Haneke's Amour, only capitalism as a stand - in for death, the main competition now brings us Sylvie Michel - Casey's Our Little Differences.

With their crew, they rewrite Shakespeare's play as an allegory for the conditions permeating their daily lives, a spoken word theater piece by and about local youth.

She writes about her struggle and, in one of the strongest scenes in this film, shares her story, written as a poetic allegory, with her class.

Mendelsohn has written an allegory about the precarious state of the American teenager in a culture that sucks the life force out of its young, who are nurtured by movies and fantasy and narcissism rather than by values such as honesty or love.

As an adult, he says, he rediscovered the story only to find that it was not a fantasy adventure so much as a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okayAs an adult, he says, he rediscovered the story only to find that it was not a fantasy adventure so much as a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okayas a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okay?)

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).

This riveting allegory, in the tradition of Lord of the Flies, starts as a simple power play within a children's classroom, but turns into a chilling tale about the lust for power and desperate need for acceptance that reside within us all.

Plato's chariot allegory is about the soul, but it works just as well for these aspects of personality.

Over at Kirkus today, I talk with author - illustrator Lita Judge, pictured here, about her new book about Mary Shelley (and her first YA book), which she describes as «part biography, part visual fantasy, and part feminist allegory.»

«11 What is interesting about Papety is that he was a Fourierist, and Courbet's Studio is among other things a Fourierist as well as a Realist allegory.

Superficially about an American illegal - drug afficionado (played by Michael Cera) on a hallucinogen - sampling trip through Chile, the film works as a terrific allegory about American swagger and hamfisted international relations.

The exhibit explored issues imbued in the controversial trend of «saggin» — the style which sees young men wearing pants well below their waist — as an allegory to talk about Black male mobility and agency.

com2kid: I had similar thoughts about math being stereotyped as anti-creative, but I think Hugh had to pick * something * to play the bad guy in this little story, else his quick and simple allegory would have derailed into a tangled spiral of qualifications and disclaimers.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Remote Controls also features the video Seduction of a Cyborg (1994), a poetic allegory about technology's invasion of the body; The Complete Electronic Diaries (1986 - 1994), a 76 - minute single - channel «video typed» confessional that records Hershman Leeson's struggle, transformation, and transcendence as her personal story unfolds before the camera; and several short video works.

In his first solo museum exhibition, Fahamu Pecou uses the trend of «saggin» (the style which sees young men wearing pants well below their waist) as an allegory to talk about Black male mobility and agency.

The nonsense of a «greenhouse» from the get - go is nothing more than allegory by Al Gore, et al., with CO2 as the Left's Moby Dick — i.e., a dramatic tale about the evils of Americanism as told by scientific idiots that secular, socialist politicians find useful to fleece the sheep.

I started to think about this as I read my own recent story about Alma Asay, the former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory.