Sentences with phrase «character than a symbol»

Katja's decision to not commit suicide is tonally pivotal to the film, as this is the juncture at which she becomes less a character than a symbol of the fury and impotency that white nationalists conjure in their victims.

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Therefore testimony better than either an example or a symbol Places reflection before the paradox which the pretension of consciousness makes a scandal of, I mean that a moment of history is invested with an absolute character.

The Italian speaking American, Jack, now poses as a photographer and calls himself Edward, as he meets two friendly characters in the Italian village who seem more like symbols than real people: a kindly Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) who once sired a bastard child and believes the Americano is a sinner worth saving and a local prostitute from the bordello with a heart of gold named Clara (Violante Placido).

Laura is more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb zombie by the movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.

On paper, Motorcycle Boy seems like an almost impossible character to portray — a walking enigma who is always speaking in philosophical aphorisms and who may indeed be more symbol than man — but Mickey Rourke finds just the right notes to play him so that he seems world - weary and otherworldly in equal measure; he practically burns up the screen with his astonishing charisma and intensity.

In an essay for BuzzFeed, Allison Wilmore argues that the issue is that most «Oscar movies» aren't made with queer audiences in mind: They use «characters as symbols rather than as people unto themselves, and mediating stories through the more «relatable» perspectives of outsiders and allies.»

Released just two years after his critically acclaimed «The Tree of Life,» Malick introduces us to the main characters immediately but they feel more like symbols than real people and we never really get to know and understand the «why» of their actions.

If there are weak spots, it is perhaps in the writing of the women who seem to be more symbols than characters.

These deleted scenes wouldn't have «fixed» Three Billboards, but they remain an interesting look at a film that probably could have done more to flesh out its black characters rather than having them serve as symbols or part of the background.

In Wonder Wheel's first shots, the camera drifts past bathers in 1950s swimwear and finds Mickey's face, as he warns us that what we're about to see may not be entirely based in reality: «As a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.»

Other than your traditional trade - based icons like books, pens and symbols reflecting your name or a character trait, the most likely place to find inspiration is to dig deeper into your specific genre.

It's got more than 12 characters, and it's replete with letters that can be substituted with symbols or numbers.

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The entire standard contains more than 128,000 characters across 135 modern and historical writing systems, including symbols.

He said that longer passwords — at least 26 characters — are better than complicated ones with capital letters and symbols.