Sentences with phrase «because social commentary»

In general, the success rate of the jokes is lower this time around, in part because social commentary is actively on the table.

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That set - up never blossoms into the pungent satire it wants to be, however, because the black hats and white hats have been so obviously delineated that any social commentary becomes utterly blunted.

The rape happens because the men feel entitled to her, which colors the incident with subtle social commentary about how women are expected to present themselves and the severe consequences for stepping outside those boundaries.

District 9 was an inspiration because of the way that film makes social commentary in a really clever way.

I'm super excited to see just what direction this series takes because there's a lot of mythology to explore here and plenty of opportunity for social commentary that will make this futuristic tale as relevant as possible.

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is a blindsiding comedy sequel, not just because it is surprisingly a much more enjoyable film than its predecessor from 2014, but for the fact that its crowded team of five different writers actually managed to tell a follow - up story layered with social commentary on hot topics such as feminism, equality and double standards.

Deon Meyer's engrossing South African thriller pits Detective Benny Griessel against a mystery that unravels like the threads of a complex tapestry... Because the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, race relations and the legacy of apartheid are an inevitable topic, and Meyer works his social commentary into the story while remaining true to his characters... Thirteen Hours draws to a satisfying conclusion, with answers that prove surprising.

Don't come for the plot or social commentary because it's not pretentious enough to really try and say anything.

And as the second Kickstarter funding effort was wrapping up, Nintendo publicly offended entire swaths of its community by suggesting there were no gay marriages in Tomodachi Life because the game didn't want to make «social commentary.»

I suspect part of it is because (even with the Treehouse and their localisation choices), Nintendo doesn't care much for «social commentary» in their games.

By Banksy's «style» you must mean his social and political commentary, because, that is what made him what he is now.

The museum chose Bruguera for this prestigious commission because of the social and political commentary running through her work.

Because of this liberated sphere of influence, radical social justice commentary is widely popular.

The most likely reason nothing happened was because Whitten was an African American artist making abstract paintings that did not seem to contain any overt social commentary.