Sentences with phrase «brutal violence which»

There is a lot of brutal violence which is usually played for laughs and most of the time it is quite funny but it definitely won't be for everyone.

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In the midst of brutal violence and ambition, which is compelled, in some sense, by divine destiny, Tolstoy shows a glimpse of humanity.

The brutal and vindictive practice of corporal punishment can not be reconciled with the major New Testament themes that teach love and forgiveness and a respect for the sacredness and dignity of children, and which overwhelmingly reject violence and retribution as a means of solving human problems.

Any plan to close the crumbling facilities, which have been the site of brutal episodes of violence and are now subject to federal oversight, would probably require Mr. de Blasio to embark on a yearslong political war fought in many pitched battles.

There are several interludes of grotesque violence that serve as a reminder of just how inhumanly brutal the whole business was, including a dip into the world of «Mandingo fighting,» which is like cockfighting but with slaves.

Brutal briskness characterizes the sporadic hand - to - hand combat sequences, though the story's prime concern is violence against not the body but the soul, as Mike's struggle isn't really against any particular opponent but a life and world in which wealth, status, and comfort are valued more than honesty, honor, and loyalty.

It's Got: Hitchcockian tension (and Hitchcockian glee in killing off or marginalising major characters); brutal violence; cowboy morality; zombie - like assailants; an early portrayal of drive - by shootings; a driving electronic soundtrack; and a heroine with a confusingly skin - toned sweater which will have you double - taking.

I was taken back by how brutal some of the violence was, which even made me turn away.

«Stepping Into Darkness: The Visual Design of Sicario» focuses on crafting the film's look and defining cinematography, «Blunt, Brolin and Benicio: Portraying the Characters of Sicario» features interviews with the three leads, «Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario» researches the brutal history of drug violence along the border (it features graphic imagery so beware), and «A Pulse from the Desert: The Score of Sicario,» which runs about 6 minutes, profiles composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

For my taste McQueen lingers too long on scenes of brutal floggings and assaults (though the sex is not tastelessly explicit), which may be what white viewers need to be reminded of — except excessively explicit violence is a staple of many modern films, where the old saying that «less is more» has long been forgotten.

The plot of «Birth of a Nation» contains two pivotal rapes — both of which take place off - camera (a curious choice for a film that shows us an unusually brutal level of violence elsewhere), but whose aftermath is harrowingly played by Aja Naomi King and a haunting, mute Gabrielle Union.

Hill strips the action down to its brutal core, like a minimalist urban Peckinpah, and in the excesses of recent action extravaganzas, the violence with which bullets hit flesh and drop bodies is quite startling.

Since this is a story about a group of organized criminals, for example, the movie has a good amount of brutal violence, which is often shown in excruciatingly slow motion by director Steven C. Miller.

The film, which, again, is called Kick - Ass 2, is a sequel to a movie whose MPAA R rating was due to «strong brutal violence throughout, pervasive language, sexual content, nudity and some drug use - some involving children.»

Nail a killing shot and the camera will lovingly follow the bullet in slow - motion before switching to glorious X-ray, letting you to watch as the gleaming piece of metal drives through muscle, shatters bone and ruptures internal organs in an orgy of gratuitous violence which stands alongside Mortal Kombat's brutal X-ray moves as the most pleasingly savage display of bodily destruction to ever appear in a videogame.

The importance of raw materials, such as wood and steel, is evident within the brutal sculptures that comprise the Lynch Fragments series by Melvin Edwards (b1937), which was a response to racial violence faced by African Americans.

Predominant themes in her work include the physical and brutal presence of beings; the violence of human relationships, in which children play a major and ambiguous part (fetishism, sadomasochism); a strong sense of mise en scène; and the importance of the animal figure.