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This line was said in the most emotionless way possible and it actually made me laugh, and considering
how emotional the scene was supposed to be its clear the script isn't a priority.
Not exact matches
Chances are, he's still an
emotional wreck from the breakup and has no idea
how to get back into the dating
scene.
So there are plot twists and several good
scenes (I particularly love
how Sartet and Samuel break into the police station to get an incriminating video on a USB), but it is all on one
emotional level.
The DVD's first featurette discusses both
how he attained the look, and the way that the physical «damage» to the film stock itself enhances the
emotional effect of the
scenes depicted within it.
«Robin Campillo did an amazing job balancing the
emotional romance and the tactical behind the
scenes of
how Act Up communicated to Paris in the «90s.
There's a genuine
emotional heft to these
scenes, and the final confrontation between them sees Kore - eda overlay their heads in a shot that highlights just
how important their relationship has become to them.
The «Star Wars» icon opened up to ET about his
emotional final
scene with his long - time friend, and
how watching now, after Fisher's death, is just too hard.
There's no better example of
how the series maintains balance than in Metal Gear Solid 3, whose most off - beat
scene is as cathartic a moment as found in any
emotional drama — even 14 years after its original November 2004 release.
He knows exactly
how to use a slowly panning camera to elongate the sexual tension of a
scene, and
how to use a lingering closeup — a pair of swim trunks hung up to dry, or a soft - boiled egg being cracked open — to heighten the material's
emotional temperature.
Their film features perhaps the first action
scene we've ever seen where we cared more about what was happening in a character's relationship than
how many kills he was about to rack up — and then, once it was done, felt simultaneously exhilarated by the visceral power of what was happening immediately, and the
emotional stakes of what that set piece took him (and us) away from.
But just when you think both actresses are being underutilized, Spielberg gives them each their own show - stopping moment: Paulson with a resonating speech about
how admirable Graham's actions are, and Coon with a
scene near the film's
emotional climax, delivering a line that will send goosebumps up your arm.
Another standout factor about this entry is
how surprising and
emotional certain
scenes in the film are.
Highly
emotional scenes are subdued, sometimes agonizingly, as the players do what they can to keep their composure, not wanting to expose themselves to letting others see just
how wrought they are over what they are feeling.
A film that opens with the above epigraph, attributed to St. Augustine, as white text over black, and then segues into a stark confessional
scene, in which an unknown man describes his childhood molestation by a Catholic priest, holds out the promise of a raw
emotional journey into
how the hope and promise of Christianity collide with the sins of the Church, especially the sin of pedophilia.
There's one
scene in particular, after Randy officially retires to take a job behind the deli counter at the supermarket, that is so telling of his
emotional journey that it doesn't even matter that you already know
how it's going to end.
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Truth be told the quality of both the writing and main narrative thread is all over the place, bouncing madly from genuinely beautifully written moments with
emotional impact and outstanding twists sure to leave you with your jaw on the floor to
scenes with clumsy dialogue and ideas that just didn't work out as well as I would have liked, though exactly
how much of this inconsistency can be put down to translation issues is hard to judge.