Not exact matches
Most of the success
stories we hear
involve an entrepreneur who pushes himself beyond his physical and
emotional limits.
Cephalopod researchers love to share the latest
stories about clever octopuses or
emotional cuttlefish —
stories that often
involve daredevil escapes from aquarium tanks.
But the more Molly's Game tries to decide what its
story is about rather than just telling it, the more the film feels like it's trying to «solve» Molly rather than portray her, to the point where its two big
emotional moments
involve Molly being sat down and informed about her own daddy issues by one male character, and getting passionately defended by another, her lawyer (Idris Elba), while she stays silent.
Annie's cancer
story, and all the romantic relationship drama that comes with it, sucks up all the
emotional juice, but surely King's groundbreaking research, which took 17 years to come to fruition,
involved struggle, too.
Using cinematographer Hossein Jafarian's crisp images, Farhadi develops the mode of camerawork that would characterize his subsequent films, a technique that
involves constant movement and reframing (especially in the apartment's beautifully designed interiors) in order to follow the shifting of perspectives among characters as well as the
story's
emotional twists.
All of this is a bit of a pity because Hulk tries to transcend its roots as a comic book roots by adding an
emotional back -
story and trying to get audiences
involved with its characters.
Unique character in Claire and a real sense of setting and the
emotional makeup of the people
involved in the
story.
In recent years, we've seen games like Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption, and Bioshock tell
stories and introduce characters that made gamers get
involved on an
emotional level.
The reason I want to share this particular
story is because the lawsuit
involves a highly
emotional area of medical malpractice — birth injury.