Sentences with phrase «film about humanity»

Despite its flaws, RoboCop 2 is, at its heart, a film about humanity.

’71 is a film about humanity.

Not exact matches

Similarly, no mere movie about Jesus can capture the fullness of his divinity, or the fullness of his humanity, no matter how sincere its makers are; but the better films can help us to see a small part of the bigger picture.

Co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts speaks with Scientific American about the Alien universe and humanity's quest for knowledge in Scott's latest film

To sum up, «Looper» is definitely a film that will make you think... about the choices you'd make when it comes to love... love of another person... and love of humanity.

This time around, it would help «Law Abiding Citizen», if Clyde displayed some sign of humanity, since the fallout from his vengeance is so distortedly pronounced, the film's message about a broken judicial system gets lost in the arterial spray.

Let's talk about that (much better) film's heroine, Leeloo Dallas (multipass), played by Milla Jovovich: She's a super-skilled, «perfect» warrior, but as the story unfolds, she learns about humanity; she discovers laughter, trust, sacrifice, and love.

That is the point of the film: this is meant to be an overview of the history of the Internet and a buffet of tidbits about how interconnected life has changed us as individuals and humanity as a civilization.

As vital, disturbing, and powerful now as it was when it was written and filmed, All Quiet on the Western Front is an excellent film about war and both its inhumanity — the moments when people are turned into monsters and pawns — and its humanity — the moments when despite the contexts people attempt to regain their decency.

Heineman has crafted a film about the barbarism of war, in which ideology blinds its adherents from recognizing the common humanity of others.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

And, as I said about the previous film, watching Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller in these films only reminds us of how terrific, intimate, and human they were in The Spectacular Now, and how sorely that humanity is lacking here.

Some of the main characters and stories in the film include: A speech by the Dalai Lama about the inter-connectivity of humanity.

Any film about artificial intelligence comes in - built with questions about existence, identity and the future of humanity.

Even in the worst films she's committed to mining the trials of her characters to make a larger point about humanity.

Instead Jonathan Glazer has created a film that's harrowing, freaky and visually stunning — with some bleak messages about humanity.

At the time, Gomez commented about his film and its central characters, «I wanted to explore them as people on the fringe of society and show their humanity....

A devotee of Metropolis, the 1927 Fritz Lang silent film about a society in which technology has overwhelmed humanity, Monáe has always sided with the machines.

His two biggest films, Office Space and The Idiocracy, went straight to DVD in Britain but became cult hits thanks to their cutting observations about the general stupidity of humanity.

Although this decision might make the film more accessible to a wider audience, as it is easier to understand what Amin does when it seems to be a direct result of information that cuts to his very core, it does weaken the larger political story overall by making the focus more about crimes of passion than it is about crimes against humanity.

The film also raises some interesting ideas about the nature of humanity, consciousness, and one's soul.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

Their career - defining gross - out sight gags have never been my cup of tea, but just about every one of their films (including their latest, Hall Pass) is driven by an unmistakable — perhaps surprising — humanity.

What most impresses me about the film is the way it shows how slavery distorts humanity on all levels.

But what is unexpected about this summer hit is the amount of humanity the script brings to the story; there is at least one relatable theme within the film that any audience member, no matter his or her own personal background, will find.

Scorsese told the audience that if you're young and you find this of any interest, you may seek out some of the films he was talking about and learn other filmmakers» ways of thinking of other cultures and to see the universal connection of our shared humanity.

But whereas other cinematic studies like Gomorrah (about modern Sicily) and the documentary Dancing with the Devil only wallowed in such viciousness, this film plunged deeper, gripped harder, and yet always allowed glints of humanity into such darkness.

What separates «Ex Machina» from all those other movies about the potential dangers of sentient A.I., however, is the addition of Gleeson's character to the equation, because it uses Caleb's humanity / moral compass against the audience to make you sympathetic towards Ava even though virtually every film about robots has taught us not to trust them.

Doomsday Book (Swiss Fist)-- A deeply uneven three segment Korean anthology film about possible ends to society or humanity.

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES The sheer humanity of this instalment is extraordinary — and it's a film about apes!

I was the only black person in the theater, lured to the film by its glowing reviews — at the time of this writing, it holds a rating of 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, boosted by several notices that gush about how the film is a dark but honest look at humanity and grief.

Another film about atonement, its very existence and execution betray the idea that the past must be dealt with, the better to face the future; you compare the whole of it to the five minutes Tommy Lee Jones commands the screen at the end of No Country For Old Men, or how no more than sketches animated in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis convey the painful humanity of time's labour's lost, and you realize there's no one authentic chord in The Kite Runner.

While the ingredients are there for this game to be a memorable one, I'm afraid this latest film about Turing fails its own test, feeling robotic and wooden, and free from the humanity and complexity that great films of this ilk can bring to audiences.

What does this film say about the worth of humanity?

The script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

The horror film is about a post-apocalyptic world where blind monsters have culled humanity and survivors have to live without making a single sound.Things get complicated when the couple find out that they are expecting another child and must survive with the risk of a noisy newborn in a world where the slightest whisper can get you killed.

Yes, it sheds light on the homeless and offers them humanity when they're virtually written off by society, but the footage has the music, marital drama, and religious indicators lingering in the backdrop that one might expect from a cliched faith - based film about miracles and turning to God.

It's rare to see a film that asks open ended & existential questions about death, evolution, genetics, humanity's true nature, & our mutually assured self - destruction.

But rather than explore what AI means for the future of humanity, and how humans would interact with it (or possibly reject it), the film becomes another in the recent line of films about the hopeless nerd who falls prey to an apparently manipulative woman.

That's a blessing for those who like getting lost in alienating dystopian worlds, and thanks to Roger Deakins» career - highlight cinematography (which is saying something), they'll be more than happy to meander in the film's high - falutin» questions about the evolving nature of humanity.

The film is about a young male zombie (Nicholas Hoult) who falls in love with one of humanity's surviving young females (Teresa Palmer), though the girl's father rejects their developing relationship.

When you can't find a single character in the film you care about as far as survival goes, it doesn't say much for those we don't see, i.e., the rest of humanity.

The film also has something to say about what humanity is and whether any human being really has achieved it.

He's actually quite watchable in films such as The Wedding Singer and Punch Drunk Love... it's a pity about his other films (such as Little Nicky — an insult to humanity in general).

He's just doing his job, and ultimately the film is about work: What it means to work a job that strips one's humanity in the service of a contract, and what it means when your life's work results in those agents.

While I found the film moderately entertaining, it doesn't really seem to be saying anything about AI and humanity that hasn't already been said repeatedly throughout decades of sci - fi storytelling.

That last is unsurprising because CHAPPIE is the brainchild of Neill Blomkamp, and many of the elements at work in that earlier film about the meaning of humanity are at work in this one.

It's a pleasure, therefore, to report that Dawn has a much more focused script, that its special effects are as impressive as any seen in this summer's blockbusters, and for those looking for a bit of substance, the film actually has a dark message about humanity and war.

There's a half - baked attempt to answer some existential questions about the nature of humanity when you're a murderous robot person, but the sentimentality doesn't mesh with the film's desire for cathartic, cinematic violence.

Two of Assayas's recent films, Late August, Early September (1998) and Les Destinées (2001), while appearing to be diametric narrative opposites, reach similar conclusions about the nature of work and humanity.