Sentences with phrase «film barbarism»

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For apart from ensuring the film an audience on both sides of the Atlantic, it enables Himelstein to import a theme more usually associated with Henry James than Wilde — the corruption of the New World by the Old — and also to introduce some amusing cross-cultural digs (like Darlington's mock approval of America as a society «that's gone from barbarism to depravity without bothering to develop civilisation in between»).

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

Cronenberg, however, with a mastery of film space that now seems like second nature to him, ushers us deep inside, placing us in intimate proximity to the casual barbarism of everyday life among thieves and murderers.

Actually, romanticized is hardly what one might call the film at all, showing the difficult life for non-nobles during the Medieval age, along with much of the barbarism, corruption and abuses of power.