What is most surprising about Sean Scully's abstract images composed of stripes and squares of colour is not
their considerable emotional power, but the fact that the most delicate watercolours or tiniest etchings can evoke a mood just as well as the large - scale oil paintings.
Director Luca Guadagnino has crafted a literate masterpiece of mood and unbridled feeling that by its devastating conclusion has amassed
a considerable emotional power.
But the sentiment is frequently underplayed to one degree or another, and part of the film's
considerable emotional power comes from a sense of how much sentiment the characters, and Bartlett in particular, are holding back.
Not exact matches
Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing
considerable aesthetic,
emotional, and narrative
power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.
Incontrovertibly, this case illustrated systemic issues of
considerable relevance to the patient's psychiatric care: on the complexity of communication, capacity for intimacy,
emotional regulation, care authority and control (or
power and helplessness)-- set in a situation all too recognisable in psychiatric practice.