Sentences with phrase «characters come to terms with their past»

Watching these characters come to terms with their past brings great hope for the future, and offers sweet solace for anyone trying to heal the wounded child within.

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Yet, «Kung Fu Panda 2» is at its finest when focusing on the internal churn of the characters, watching Po and even Tigress (who's warming up to her rotund partner) come to terms with their fractured past, helping them achieve the special yin - yang balance of inner peace needed to defeat Shen.

Watching Todd Haynes's seventh feature, Wonderstruck, it's hard not to think about certain hallmarks of the director's previous films: the sense of yearning and isolation found in Safe and Far from Heaven; the fixation on personal and historical past as characters come to terms with being outsiders in Velvet Goldmine; even the use of Barbie dolls as stand - ins for real people in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.