Sentences with phrase «as an allegory on»

Although loosely based on actual events it was also written by Miller as an allegory on Senator Joseph McCarthy and his «Communist witch hunts» of the 1950's, that blacklisted artists and filmmakers for being «Un-American».

Serving as an allegory on a cosmic marriage with the world, or her union with her art, Dawn's Wedding Feast was an environment that enveloped the viewer, overturning the notion of sculpture as an object to walk around.

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He also uses imagery and allegory to good effect, such as the reference to playing table tennis on a moving train: The ball may appear to be bouncing back and forth, but in the grand scheme it's really moving only in one direction.

Could the story of the Fall be an allegory for the origins of humanity's tendency to sin based not on «original sin» but on the freedom given to humanity in Genesis 1 and the responsibility given in Genesis 1 to govern ourselves and this world as free agents, not puppets or childishly dependent on God?

Perhaps with the feeding of the multitude and the walking on the sea the spiritual lesson came first, and the story grew out of it as a parable or allegory.

Both the message and the allegory have been sturdy traditions in Christian literature and, as Lynch suggested in his comments on the univocal imagination, they share the characteristic of tending to flatten out the complexities of historical life for the sake of the «idea.»

«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.

In addition to a helpful glossary and an indispensable index, The Literary Guide features some useful and, in several instances, excellent general essays such as Helen Elsom's superb treatment of the New Testament and Greco - Roman literature, Gerald L. Bruns's brilliant study of midrash and allegory, and an interesting essay by Alter on the characteristics of ancient Hebrew poetry.

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.

Three of these, the feeding of the five thousand and the four thousand and the walking on the sea, may have originated as allegories of the power of Christ to preserve his disciples and supply their needs.

I also believe that the Bible is meant to be taken as allegory, not scientific fact, and that young earth creationists and evolution deniers are among the dumbest people on the planet.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

Looking at the Mimic series as a sort of allegory of the dangers of technology is a given; locating a man - child, his room encased in a plastic sheath and taking pictures of his neighbours for a collage on his wall, as the centre of a Mimic sequel is something like a stroke of (derivative) genius.

Painted on a larger canvas, The Bourne Ultimatum poses itself as an unavoidable political allegory (what with Greengrass fresh off the triumph of United 93), lending a lot of weight to its portrait of a completely broken world where one wrong word spoken on an open line can bring the whole weight of a rogue National Security Agency down on them like a concrete gargoyle.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

Interpreted variously as a preachy liberal fable, an allegory of the McCarthy era and as a commentary on U.S. involvement in both Korea and WWII, it stands first and foremost as a fine, classic western movie.

Also, Casper's naïve reaction to his food's criticism doesn't serve much as a lesson in thick skin by any means, and any allegory to Favreau's own opinions on criticism of his work isn't especially effective.

The film, which has been interpreted as a commentary on the empty bromides of self - help culture as well as an allegory of the AIDS crisis, became a breakthrough for both Haynes and Moore, who would go on to collaborate on such ravishing period pieces as Far from Heaven and Wonderstruck (which premiered at Cannes last month).

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.

- and viewed it as a perfect allegory for whatever metaphor you wanted to project on it.

In case you don't figure out that this story is meant as timely political allegory, there are bill - boarded hints along the way, the most obvious including Kemp holding forth on Nixon's legacy and the despoliation of Paradise.

It's smart, funny and works both as a delightful family film on the surface and a rich allegory for race relations on a much deeper level.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

On Wednesday, Hollywood legend John Carpenter hit back at neo-Nazis and white supremacists online who had been idolizing his 1988 cult classic, They Live, as an allegory for fighting against Jewish supremacy.

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...

Denounced as a heretic for his vocalizations, Marston aims to use the Bishop's tribulation to tell a powerful allegory on the importance of inclusivity.

The latest film by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu is a dizzying, one - shot wonder starring Michael Keaton as thinly - veiled Keaton allegory Riggan Thomson, a washed - up superhero actor attempting to gain cred as a serious artist by putting on his own show on Broadway, with all the drama, introspection and telekinesis that typically entails.

Frontera is what I like to call a «humanist drama», which is a drama that tackles a polarizing subject head on — this case being illegal immigration — and does it by portraying people on both sides of the issue as honest and complex, instead of as symbols in an allegory.

commentary on the elasticity of this genre model (Bond films in particular, the lead in said franchise McGoohan was offered, er, once upon a time) as allegory for the plastic - fantastic of a progressively absurd world.

It is every miserablist working - class, undereducated, easily - roused neighborhood - as - allegory you've ever seen on film, from Dead End to Out of the Furnace.

As political allegories go, The Shape of Water isn't notably sophisticated or specific: some might argue that it errs slightly by itself othering the non-human creature in question (named only as Amphibian Man) by denying him any silent perspective on proceedingAs political allegories go, The Shape of Water isn't notably sophisticated or specific: some might argue that it errs slightly by itself othering the non-human creature in question (named only as Amphibian Man) by denying him any silent perspective on proceedingas Amphibian Man) by denying him any silent perspective on proceedings.

Life of Pi Based on: Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001) Release: November 21 In a nutshell: Yann Martel's beloved allegory / adventure tale comes to life in 3D, as directed by Ang Lee.

As civil rights allegories go, it's a little on the nose.

It is through Courbet, the specific artist, the Harmonian demiurge, that all the figures partake of the life of this pictorial world, and all are related to his direct experience; they are not traditional, juiceless abstractions like Truth or Immortality, nor are they generalized platitudes like the Spirit of Electricity or the Nike of the Telegraph; it is, on the contrary, their concreteness which gives them credibility and conviction as tropes in a «real allegory,» as Courbet subtitled the work, and which, in addition, ties them indissolubly to a particular moment in history.

But her relation to representation is not in the realm of narrative or allegory, the thing itself is the important thing, the painting as an object that projects into our space carrying pigment on its surface.

In her Portrait As An Allegory of Fidelity (oil on linen), the artist presents herself holding her child while around her are piled the trappings of family life including toys, a dog, and a strange gentleman peering from around a curtain in the right rear quadrant of the painting.

The two characters» different personalities and dispositions cause a succession of miscommunicated and misconceived ideas as the dialogue unfolds, revolving around foreign cultures, commercial production, allegory, religion and so on.

While the 24th Street show, «Comrades II,» draws on the African liberation movements and communism, «Lerato,» on 20th Street, employs allegory and lerato, the Setswana concept that best translates as «love.»

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 American artist Ericka Beckman's films and videos focus on games and sport competitions and their rules and structures, featuring the underlying playing fields as an allegory for the development and maintenance of socio - cultural norms.

These still - lives are an allegory that sheds light on the «practical» process of photography so that additional factors, such as moral, cultural, artistic, emotional, etc. are referred to in the image.

i'm only a passenger — just like you (from an Egyptian tomb) As you round the corner of the entryway at Diane Rosenstein where this phrase is visible, the first works on view in Eleanor Antin's Passengers are two massive photographs from her 2004 series Roman Allegories.

The well, the crack, were always the most literal metaphor for the mysteries of the body and the land, allegories of life, of sex and of death, the earth's crust as a geological scar on the universe the body and its most intimate mysteries are inscribed on.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

The last five years of his artistic practice focused on AIDS as a subject matter, drawing on community experience and mixing dreamlike allegory with figurative realism.

The more time I spend on this side of the pond, the more I think this company allegory applies to these United States, as well.

Bare breasted and tutu clad, their lips and eyes hidden by veils or obscured by black bars, these Cathara Insurgent Women recur as prominent characters in the artist's photographs, videos, artist books, and collage works on fabric, usually operating as allegories for resistance.