Sentences with phrase «bleak vision»

To his detriment, it is a very bleak vision indeed.

Mr. Penn infuses the film with his own bleak vision of the American West and the wild contemporary frontiersmen who choose to live there.

Whether or not one buys into Menzies» unrelentingly bleak vision, it's hard not to admire how well he captures the mood.

In a career built on unsettling, uncompromising bleak visions, «The Dead Zone» is among David Cronenberg's most poignant, powerful and strangely humane works.

All the promotional material we've seen so far suggests a rather bleak vision (almost comically so); one that's devoutly stripped of the comic relief that's oh - so - surgically injected into Marvel's movie fare.

Its unremittingly bleak vision would seem to have little to offer a land as enchanting as Hyrule.

Boltanski's bleak vision for the Palais — he promises to deliver a 21st - century version of Dante's Inferno — centres on a crane that will swoop down to pick up handfuls of clothes from a 12m high pile.

But Ireland offers a bleak vision of what happens when politics fails.

It's a bleak vision of the future.

In effect, the Kingdom is caught between two bleak visions of America: walling itself off, or potentially imposing on other nations — the latter the very imperialism it managed to escape.

This almost adds to the bleak vision of the film, no music, very little uplifting moments, as if to enjoy yourself is frowned upon.

This fourth installment is a complete reboot, returning to the web - slinger's creation story, and Garfield, more than any other factor, contributes to the sense of a bleaker vision along the lines of «The Dark Knight.»

Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and»50s in its visual mastery.

Do the Coens imagine that this bleak vision describes the world as it is?

1984 is based on the classic science fiction novel by George Orwell, which offered a bleak vision of a future dystopia where one's thoughts and actions were controlled by a totalitarian government ruled by an entity known simply as «Big Brother».

A film from the unpredictable peripheries of independent film - making, Entertainment is a bleak vision of the US as a junkyard paradise of lonely souls, empty motels and everyday madness.

Melanie Griffith and Dylan McDermott co-star in director Gabe Ibáñez's bleak vision of the future

How do we break the insidious cycle of poverty, which chains children to neglected neighborhoods and bleak visions of the future?

Here they've taken their history and moulded it into a bleak vision of workers toiling away on dirty machines and stomping mechs that ensure none escape.

Set within a bleak vision of the future dominated by a crime syndicate known only as the Boryokudan, players take control of Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin with a shady past, and Delta - Six aka Charlie, a prisoner in a secret facility who has had his memory wiped clean.

But whereas Parts and Hardbodies explore a relationship between the production of femininity and industrial goods, Test Tube Babies offers a way out of this bleak vision.

The contrast between this bleak vision of urban life and the confection of pastel plastic sheeting by Karla Black over the stairwell underlines the diversity of the work produced by artists living and working in Scotland, leaving very different pieces to exist in the same space without forcing connections.

The uncanny foam - spewing waste figures and the vulnerable youths perched on the paralyzed relics of our time seem to offer a bleak vision of humanity in some not too distant future.

Whereas the likes of the PCI have been able to turn their bleak vision into a system of «ethics» and politics, the optimists» ideas don't seem to have any immediate moral consequences.