Not exact matches
However, they do make great «wallpaper» cinema: films to turn on in the background
during a cocktail party to entertain your guests (especially fun when Thunderbirds are Go casts aside
narrative and indulges in a prolonged dream
sequence at a night club in space — call it a camp precursor to the Stargate
sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey).
The absence of true danger and, thus, suspense, proves a constant
narrative obstacle, though it's nonetheless one occasionally hurdled courtesy of breakneck pacing and clean choreography that's first evident
during a slam - bang opening chase, and regularly picks up again
during similar
sequences in which its characters race through streets, leap between apartment buildings, and sneakily infiltrate a crowded police station.
The result of these competing
narrative threads is decidedly mixed, especially
during the period between the conclusion of a frantic
sequence in the emergency room and a finale that presents three simultaneous burials.
- The gameplay
during Desmond's game is described as
narrative - fueled puzzle
sequences.