Sentences with phrase «fiction and reality when»

Actor Josh Brolin may be used to playing tougher characters in his movies but it seems that he blurred the lines between fiction and reality when he...

Not exact matches

When it comes to technology and innovation, reality seems to be constantly playing catch - up to the visions of the world that are painted in science fiction narratives.

When, we tend to use the word «fiction», we are pulling ourselves away from the actual ground of reality and pushing ourselves closer to the non-realistic world of imaginations.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

Fiction becomes reality and dreams come to life when the invisible God makes Himself known.

The answer is they all wrote stories that involved a journey to the Moon, one of the oldest and most popular themes of the science fiction genre until 25 years ago, when it was crushed by the weight of reality and Neil Armstrong's foot.

Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears the Narrator say that events have been set in motion that will lead to his imminent death.

There's a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction... particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide.

A combination of Aronofsky's Pi (doing the «math = god = madness» equation much better, I should add), Good Will Hunting, Marathon Man, and eventually Drop Dead Fred, A Beautiful Mind ultimately outsmarts itself by blurring reality and fiction so awkwardly that when a pivotal uplift sequence occurs towards the end, one is left wondering for a time whether that, too, is some kind of delusion.

Though your films aren't documentaries, you do blend reality and fiction, such as when Frances (Greta Gerwig) visits her parents in Sacramento in «Frances Ha.»

When she suddenly finds herself haunted by a presence, she has trouble distinguishing fiction from reality and falls deeper into a world of her perceptions.

Marczak, it appears, is pushing even further than Werner Herzog or, more recently, Robert Greene (he of Actress and Kate Plays Christine) when it comes to blurring the line between constructed fiction and documentary reality.

But make no mistake: In The Ambassador, Mads Brügger — who, as both featured performer in and auteur of films that seek to capture reality through fiction, is sort of the Euro film - festival equivalent of Sacha Baron Cohen, when Cohen was interesting — gives what has to be one of the riskiest and most committed performances of the year.

And we're not talking sleight of hand, we're talking about the kind of magic that Apple manufactures: the magic that happens when you watch science fiction turn into reality right in front of you.

When I was the age that many kids today are who are playing games like GTA and COD, I was never allowed to play nor see anything that was age rated for adults because my parents felt I needed to learn about life first and to know the fine line between reality and fiction and right and wrong, I never got to play my first adult rated game till I was 17 and had proven that I was mature enough to not copy anything from the game, that game was Eternal Champions on the Mega Drive, fun game, but tacky.

When the scales of fantasy and reality — of science and science - fiction — were in perfect balance?

Sure it's fiction, and it can be magical as much as it wants, but when you've established a world, a timeline, and the fact that it's grounded by relatable elements to reality, you can't disrupt that without a sound explanation.

When the cancer diagnosis slammed me into the starkest reality I've never cared to be a part of, I sought refuge in the form of film, games, and the creation of fiction.

The works on show will explore ideas of the cyborg and the avatar raising questions of identity and individual and collective consciousness at a time of prolific social change and uncertainty when reality can often seem more like science fiction.