Sentences with phrase «from political allegories»
His works range from huge to miniature and from political allegories to drawings documenting his dreams.
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A good zombie movie but also more notably a good political allegory,»28 Days Later» works off its» innovative director, even if it is not as quick paced as one might hope from a zombie flick.
Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.
Despite its action and revelations, its substantial political allegory and its strong performances from a tremendous cast, «The Hunger Games: Mockingkay — Part 1» still feels like one long -LSB-...]
It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.
His subject matter ranged from personal narrative and cultural history to surrealist landscapes and political allegory.
Among his monumental pieces is a 200 - kilogram tornado made from barbed wire and another of a gigantic wave, both of which serve as allegories for a void, political unrest and change.