Jordan has fun with set design and costumes in recreating 1910s and 20s Ireland, and he clearly jumps at the opportunity to
construct scenes around intense violence and underground plotting, but he never engages the complications at the heart of Irish identity and patriotism.
Not exact matches
Here is a film that is
constructed entirely
around a dinner
scene that speaks volumes about the class system.
Here is a film that is
constructed entirely
around a dinner
scene that speaks volumes about the class... Read More
The film is moving, crawling, even, with passionate energy, leading to bombastic outbursts of emotion from its actors, all generally
constructed as believable, organic forces even though many are tossed
around in only a handful of
scenes.
(In one of the film's most gripping and sharply
constructed scenes, Bobby confronts a creepy, predatory interloper who has been hanging
around the motel's playground.)
Because nearly every
scene called for an apple box of some sort, various wide - body boxes were
constructed to allow Anderson to move
around more easily without falling off.