There's a female - empowerment angle to the premise, yet the film comes up short in terms of
emotional resonance because it consistently feels so detached from reality.
Not exact matches
Beautiful Thing works so well
because it reminds us of that fact without losing its own
emotional resonance.
Black Panther's third act is less impressive by comparison, as the movie's action gets bogged down in CGI overload and its plot beats lack the
emotional resonance of earlier moments, either
because they are rushed or a bit too conventional (re: predictable).
And at the same time, that love triangle actually achieves some
emotional resonance — not
because the filmmakers agonize over who's most «right» for Katniss, but
because she and her two would - be suitors are each fighting for what means something and is important to them.
Though she isn't in the film long, McAdams leaves such an indelible impression through her performance that it gives Southpaw the needed
emotional resonance to give all of the rest of the scenes that play out a good deal of weight, as we root for Billy, not
because we see him as sympathetic, but
because she believed he was a good man underneath his thuggish tendencies.
It's argued that Vol 2 of the Guardians of the Galaxy story doesn't hit the same milestones as the first
because the characters felt a little stagnant or not as fleshed out as they were as individuals in the first film, but apart from this, Guardians 2 draws audiences in spades
because it's not only consistently fun and hilarious, but
because there is true
emotional resonance in characters that would never be expected like Rocket Raccoon and Yondu, and Peter's abandonment issues that surface when he encounters his biological father, Ego (Kurt Russel).
At a point, I forgot Sheridan's Scott and Lucas Till's Alex Summers were brothers,
because the movie makes no effort to create a strong connection between the two, which is a huge mistake if they want any
emotional resonance.
Now, after nearly 30 years of working with dogs, I'm only interested in attaining a kind of
emotional resonance with them,
because when you have that kind of relationship you automatically have control, and your dog's behaviors reinforce themselves.
I don't want to spoil anything, but much of the story revolves around Snake and everything that happened with his old mentor, The Boss, in Meta Gear Solid 3, and
because of that there's an
emotional resonance throughout the game that works perfectly.
And I think it's
because it had that
emotional resonance of giving players greater motivation to actually go and try to complete the game.