Sentences with phrase «deliberate lack of a story»

But trying at a story and offering minimal effort as far as the actual quality of said story is going to get noticed more than a deliberate lack of a story altogether.

Not exact matches

Mark and Kameron's exchange in our last round about the lack of explicit gay sex scenes in Call Me by Your Name, and what that «omission» (or, as Mark more precisely identifies it, deliberate aesthetic choice) has meant to different segments of the film's queer audience, brought to mind BPM, a brainy but also wrenchingly heartfelt film whose story in part revolves around those very questions: how much to show, to whom, and for what purpose.

Set in the mid-1980s, it builds a thriller - like story of a woman trying to help her friend obtain a dangerous illegal abortion — yet it's a thriller so deliberate that its very slowness and lack of movement becomes a major source of tension.