Sentences with phrase «flashback structure»

Because of the film's haphazard and confusing flashback structure, however, we already know that eight years later she is alive, and being kept in a locked basement by a creepy perv called Mika with a creepy perv's tache (Kevin Durand, unsurprisingly) who only ever seems to listen to one piece of music in his designer home: the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's «The Magic Flute.»

The first season's hidden - flashback structure didn't serve the story or characters at all; it only served to mess with the viewer.

Not Stone, so he gives us only a few, filling the rest of the movie with exposition, delivered in a strange polyglot of accents, and framing it in an elaborate flashback structure as old Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins) lectures scholars — and us — on why Alexander was great.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

Jasmine, we learn in a toggling flashback structure that also feels fresh to Allen's style, is fleeing the scorched earth of a broken marriage to a Bernie Madoff — like fraud, Hal (Alec Baldwin), a swindler of fortunes.

The film's complex flashback structure is skilfully handled by Ramsey, deviating from the diary form of Lionel Shriver's original novel to concentrate on Kevin's warped, psycho - sexual duelling with his mother, played out in some remarkable and, sometimes, uncomfortable scenes.

As we settled into a multiple flashback structured film where only the blood splattered pink suit gives the audience context, the visual include many extreme close ups and a clear difference between Portman's in camera TV intro to the White House and her everyday voice.

The screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, Chloe) keeps the source material's three narrators (Rachel, Anna, and Megan), but Taylor's indifference to perspective — exacerbated by a confused and tiresome flashback structure — ensures that they are all equally useless.

Banville has probably been wise to organize the book's elastic chronology into a more conventionally defined flashback structure for the screen, though the final effect is inevitably less striking.

With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award — nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.

The movie relies on a needlessly intricate flashback structure and a lot of long, flat dialogue scenes to flesh out every character.

But the film also has the dramatic finesse of a sledgehammer: Its most emotionally charged moments buckle under the weight of a ceaseless and manipulative score, and its disorganized and distracting flashback structure tries to contextualize the horrors and humiliations endured by Bahar but does so at the expense of narrative momentum.

While it is arrogant and presumptuous for any viewer, and especially a critic, to suggest that we might know better (not that that stops us), I can not help but wonder if a flashback structure might have helped.

Or, at least, that seems to be what it's after, as Richard J. Lewis's lengthy but aimless saga generally goes about its funny - serious business without a guiding purpose, detailing the ups and downs of Barney's matrimonial days and nights with so little verve or intention — and with so little of the unreliable - narrator ambiguity implied by its title and flashback structure — that the effect is like reading a dead man's day calendar.

He uses a flashback structure to flesh out the wedding of Mary Morstan (Amanda Abbington) and John Watson (it's a little known «fact» that most serious scholars of the Holmes» canon believe Watson may've married up to seven times in the stories!)

Walking into Lee's life «forced me to put the past into the flashback structure,» Lonergan said.

As two different movies go, (the Jasmine past and the Jasmine present), «Blue Jasmine» isn't all that jarring and it's flashback structure, while a crutch, isn't as inelegant as one would think.

The flashback structure gives extra shape not only to his character, but also to the fim's structure — it preserves a kind of symmetry in the narrative that would be unbalanced if the stuff at Monaco were appended as a coda, though it also defuses what could have been a source of tension in the body of the film, namely the question of whether Sol would make it out of the camp alive.

The general outlines wouldn't seem to promise anything like that sort of experience, and Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk's screenplay sometimes treats its flashback structure (articulated through FBI interrogations of key Bulger associates) as an excuse to tell, even summarize, rather than show.

Despite the films bleak subject matter and flashback structure that — although handled well, does — at times, break the momentum of the here and now, Away (trailer) remains a thrilling and often extremely moving character drama, that is anchored by two exceptional central performances.

And in general, the flashback structure is too herky - jerky for the film's more delicate emotional modulations.

«Fried Green Tomatoes» is fairly predictable, and the flashback structure is a distraction, but the strength of the performances overcomes the problems of the structure.

The gory details of a mission gone bad are recounted in a flashback structured through an interrogation taking place in the present day — a scene to which we frequently cut throughout.