Sentences with phrase «film about guilt»

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It's a science fiction film that gives you a lot of plot to chew on and some genuine moral dilemmas — about sacrifice, guilt, heinous crimes to protect the greater good and what not.

Most films about relationships on the rocks center on things like betrayal and guilt and lust.

Watts manages to make her Edith seem genuinely remorseful about her actions but unable to stop, and Ruffalo puts a believable hint of guilt in Jack's face that he carries through the film.

Just about any film that explores the question that all of us ponder about what happens to us after we die already starts with built - in intrigue, and while Flatliners eventually becomes a relatively standard «Twilight Zone» - esque story about dealing with the guilt and remorse of one's past to resolve one's future, it's certainly a movie that stands out as quite different in style and, to some extent, subject matter than most anything that Hollywood had churned out before.

In the first part of the film, she can only talk about the guilt she feels about not spending enough time with her struggling artist husband.

The film is full of clunky dialogue with cardboard characters explaining stuff to each other about Palestine, the Holocaust and German guilt.

But as Theresa's guilt and self - medication mount, along with the film's profoundly muddled ideas about assisted suicide, the curated trance grows mind - numbing.

They're about taking your current IQ, cutting it in half, and allowing yourself guilt - free enjoyment of that dumb comedy, action sequel - to - a-sequel-of-a-reboot or ridiculous and glorious - looking film about a prehistoric shark.

Part of the film seems to be about the white man's guilt over the destruction of the aboriginal culture.

Although much talked about in the previous films, Psycho IV: The Beginning is the first to show a living Norma Bates (Hussey, Rome and Juliet), and to give is a first - hand viewing of how bizarre an upbringing a young Norman (Thomas, Cloak & Dagger) would have, resulting in overwhelming feeling of guilt in his actions that he didn't have the maturity or mental balance to keep a grip on.

The Exorcist, while being one of the scariest films of all time, is ultimately about a priest's crisis of faith, guilt, and ability to fight a very personal spiritual battle.

Certainly, his latest film exhibits many of his most characteristic features: an early static shot of a concert audience once again emphasises spectatorship as a primary concern; we meet, as so often, a bourgeois family about to experience severe suffering; Emmanuelle Riva follows Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Naomi Watts in giving an extraordinary performance in response to psychological terror; and violence, with its attendant guilt, comes as a shocking intrusion into this world.

There isn't a critic alive who wouldn't feel, as I just did, a twinge of guilt after writing that, because of all the carping we do about thrill - driven American films.

I would argue that the film is much less about her innocence or guilt, and much more about the state of our country's leaders and the judicial system at the time of Lincoln's assassination.

In case that statement was too subtle for you, Nicholson spelt it out more bluntly, saying McQueen's Oscar - winning film «sucked up all the guilt about black people.»

I don't think the film works emotionally, with it all being about Leo's guilt.

The personification of all of his mother's fear, guilt and anxiety about motherhood, Kevin's arrival signals the abrupt end of a once carefree life for Eva (Tilda Swinton)-- and the film subsequently deals with the story of Kevin's youthful progress towards a catastrophically violent incident at his high - school that has devastating, and fatal, repercussions for everyone around him.

But by focusing instead on the hard - nosed journalism that broke the story, McCarthy has crafted a bracingly powerful film about the institutions that hold sway in our society, the need for a free press to hold them accountable, and the pervasive sense of guilt that can get in the way.

Obviously harboring a deep guilt for his living high on the hog in the West while his ancestors were massacred in the motherland, Egoyan never misses a chance to revisit Armenia as a theme in his films — even if, say, it's a movie about a strip club and a dead girl (Exotica).

When Oscar - nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga («Babel,» «21 Grams,» «Amores Perros») set out to make his directorial debut, he turned to the A-list actress he thought could best carry his film's story about guilt, forgiveness, and searing love: Charlize Theron.

This is not just a film about family drama, it is family drama, but through a lens that allows us to see clearly how difficult loss is as well as the guilt that can go with it.

Betrayal and guilt are the recurring themes in Free Fall, Stephen Lacant's powerful film about forbidden love.