This emotional climax of the film, with its warring glints of despair and hope, typifies the stunning achievement of The Ice Storm and confirms Lee as a director of the first rank.
Needless to say, it's an issue when Eastwood allows
the emotional climax of his film to be handled by archival footage of French President Francois Hollande's speech honoring the three Americans.
Goodbye Andy: (8:02) A look at designing
the emotional climax of the film that required emotions out of the human characters instead of the toys.
They're addressed as cursory at best, and when
the emotional climax of the film is meant blend with a major culture clash happening in the city, it rings false and unnecessary.
Not exact matches
Theoretically the
climax of an action
film should tie together all
of its
emotional and plot conflict into one big moment
of physical catharsis.
Like Jolie, the writers also do a good job
of compartmentalizing each piece
of the story so that it feels like a fresh chapter with renewed interest, while also keeping the focus on the
emotional / spiritual arc
of Louis as a consistent throughline, so that the movie's
climax (which is much more metaphoric and spiritual than literal) has significant impact and satisfies in an iconic and moving way that is hard for any
film to pull off.
All
of which is reflected in Nicholson's phenomenal central performance, for Bobby is himself a kind
of actor, playing at being ugly, mean and self - sufficient in a doomed effort to disguise his absolute
emotional emptiness, feeling himself exposed layer by layer as the
film approaches its devastating
climax.
At the time
of the
film's release, the closing montage
of Luke's cheeky grin was an
emotional climax to a fictional story.
But Ryan Coogler's
film — not so much an extension
of a franchise as a fresh graft
of its mythos — is a very robust red: it's a boxing
film alive with bodily tension, social concern and, by its roaring
climax, genuinely meaningful
emotional rescue.
This
emotional twist, while exhilarating, means that the comic set - piece that forms the
climax of the
film feels a little underwhelming.
I like Marvel stepping away from world - ending
climaxes to make a heist
film that has an
emotional core
of father - daughter relationships.
The
emotional climax was the weakest aspect
of the original, and it's even worse this time around, because after all
of the allegedly comic nastiness that ensues, MacFarlane still wants you to think that his
film has a heart.
Expectations may veer towards a
film about the aftermath
of JFK's assassination told from the perspective
of his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to be based around tubthumping
emotional climaxes.
When they are forcefully parted, the
film follows the extraordinary journey
of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives
of all those he meets - British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter - before the story reaches its
emotional climax in the heart
of No Man's Land.
A rare Hollywood
film that deals with both the violence and the turmoil and the regret these men face when they slow to catch their breath, it's searing for most the
emotional ride, with some genuinely chilling moments
of impulsive human malevolence and a morally ambiguous
climax that twists the knife
of poetic justice.
The
film attempts to build towards a meaningful
emotional climax, but it fails in execution since the story itself isn't handled with the proper amount
of care.
Whether her work portrays a series
of narrative fragments or a single evocative scene repeated over and over, Friedman heightens the
emotional impact by cutting directly to the
film's
climax in order to, as she puts it, «get to the part you really care about.»