Sentences with phrase «emotional centre»

They are intended to function as a comic Greek chorus, and their collective wisdom becomes the movie's unexpected emotional centre.

If Fanning is the film's lifeblood, then it's Refn himself who provides its unerring emotional centre.

The film's emotional centre comes when both Joes meet over a cuppa joe in a derelict diner (another «last -»40s homage in the next»40s»).

Of course, a documentary shouldn't manufacture drama or manipulate feelings, but Unlocking the Cage is a bit rudderless, without a real emotional centre.

Our individual genetic make - up determines the effect that stress has on our emotional centres.

That kind of emotional centre is key to the success of Crowe's films, and it works beautifully here, aided immeasurably by a wonderful performance by then - newcomer Renee Zellweger, as well as a spot - on effort from Cruise and a deliciously over-the-top innings from Cuba Gooding Jr..

Ungalaaq, best known for his starring roles in Ce qu'il faut pour vivre, Pilon's best - known film, and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, becomes the film's emotional centre.

Then, in a twist that wouldn't feel out of place in a Two Ronnies sketch, Padilha and screenwriter Gregory Burke torpedo the emotional centre of their movie by having a kindly airport security guard inform Pike's character that the telephone she's using — the one she's just poured her heart out into for two straight minutes — is out of service, but she's welcome to try again from the bank of phones over in that corner.

Like its predecessor, «The Lego Batman Movie» also manages to find an emotional centre among all this mayhem.

As Wilson befriends a genuine RC enthusiast Denny (a wondrously unaffected Jack Kehler), his new friend's understanding of Wilson's needs — particularly when coming to his defense at a Louisiana hobbyists» convention disrupted by the demented Wilson — functions as the film's spiritual and emotional centre.

A butter - fingered son (Garrett Hedlund) of Everybody's Now - Drunk All - American (Tim McGraw, paralleling fellow country singer Dwight Yoakam's villainous role in Sling Blade) forms the emotional centre of the picture: a troubled ball of split allegiances and an ultimately daring look at how a father can emotionally batter a son and remain the most important thing in his life.

A sequence where Andy hijacks the prison PA and pipes Mozart's «The Marriage of Figaro» through the prison to the awe of the literally captive audience is a model of montage as well as the emotional centre of the emotional film (even if its lack of depth is exposed by a similarly - intended scene in Jules Dassin's amazing 1947 prison melodrama Brute Force), while Thomas Newman's soaring orchestral score captures just the right mood of overwrought and overripe.

The scenes between Crowe and Giamatti come to form the emotional centre of the film, an honest and touching portrayal of friendship which is almost enough to convince you that the movie has a heart.

Although buried deeper than its emotional centre, aspects like crisp and vibrant framing accompanied by a melody of 80's track for its soundtrack save it from being a complete disaster.

Most of our decisions are made in the emotional centre of our brain, the limbic system.

The areas of our brain that are involved in cognitive learning are directly linked to the emotional centres of our brain.