Sentences with phrase «biblical allegory»

I can not wait to hear the justification for how the Twilight series is a dramatic retelling of some heretofore unpopular Biblical allegory.

Or a fisherman since so many of his later Biblical allegories were around fishing?

c) Easily confused by biblical allegory not meant to be taken as literal.

As with Aronofsky's insane biblical allegory, we're really not sure who this movie is meant to be for.

Reeves is at the top of his game as a director, imbuing this film with Biblical allegories and exploring grounded, relatable emotions through an unlikely group of protagonists.

A decade after the release of his award - winning Adam's Apples, Men & Chicken arrives to remind us of Jensen's gift for crafting meticulous worlds filled with outrageous black humor, enlightening and often biblical allegory, and tortured characters.

eventually descends into insanity, it's quite understandable that Paramount took the step of hinging much of its promotion on the film's early scenes, which at first indicate a sinister home invasion thriller rather than a maddening biblical allegory.

Featuring Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, «Oscar - caliber» Michelle Pfeiffer, harrowing biblical allegory is «work of a visionary,» says Peter Travers

Or it is all one big biblical allegory?

A righteous Biblical allegory about the havoc we wreak on our planet (as I'm sure you've heard and heard again), damning not just the aggressive acts but the mindset behind them.

A marriage of Old Testament allegory, medieval design and thin facets of light - absorbing agate, the window installation speaks to our geological origins and the genesis of biblical allegory as one of the keystones in western thinking.

If you look hard enough you're bound to find a biblical allegory anywhere.

It's dark and violent, sure, but it's also laced through with black humor, Biblical allegory, and even a slight a fairy tale feel.

A heady and surprisingly effective blend of war movie, westerns, Shakespearean drama, and Biblical allegory, War for the Planet of the Apes is a top - notch conclusion to what stands as an unexpectedly epic series that continues to punch above its weight class.

by both critics and the maker of the film, Aronofsky's latest work is dripping with surrealist subtext and biblical allegory, enough, in fact, for numerous rewatches if your visual senses are strong enough to handle the events of the film.

There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.

It is a Biblical allegory.

Is it a biblical allegory?

is a biblical allegory, with intimations of Rosemary's Baby when the wife becomes pregnant.