Sentences with phrase «human drama play»

His architectural portraits reflect the mastery of marble and stone cutting along with the scale and the theatricality that shape the way human drama plays out in these spaces.

Not exact matches

The Coen's common tack of forcing the audience to confront the possibility of nihilism being true, of human life being essentially meaningless, which for them has usually played out within a crime drama, here occurs in a mundane set of events.

Ultimately our interpretation of the whole human drama depends on an ultimately personal decision concerning the part that we mean to play in it.

I interpret the idea of theo - drama as, in one sense, a theological commentary on Ingold's concept of life as movement, a human becoming through deliberate placing of the human person in the movement of the play as a way of bringing forth not simply that which is unique to human beings, but structuring human life as part of a wider bringing forth (p. 51).

Of course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and drama.

Like Benjamin Button, this drama plays around with the human lifespan, is slickly produced and feels far too serious for its own good.

In Chloé Zhao's resoundingly human film The Rider, the narrative is framed as both documentary and drama focused on 20 - year - old rising rodeo star Brady Blackburn (played by Brady Jandreau) as he undergoes a crisis of identity.

is misleading because while draped in Darius Khondji's luxuriant, golden - hued cinematography like the silks of Lady Liberty's gown, and decked in loving period costume and detail, the film is really a small - scale human drama in which those Gray staples, a love triangle and a love / hate brother-esque relationship, play out beat by minutely observed beat.

It plays more for humor, as well as for the human drama, but it never manages to step out of the shadow of its predecessor to distinguish itself as anything other than a retread.

But no one will confuse this tense drama with Weird Science — Ex Machina, which marks the directorial debut of 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, is an unnerving meditation on the ethics of artificial intelligence, the ever - growing power of Silicon Valley (Isaac plays the reclusive founder of a search - engine company), the nature of human desire and more.

For as conventional and safe as Eastwood plays the human drama, however, the movie's gripping reenactment of the crash is a wonderfully staged piece of filmmaking that makes it all worth it.

I've already seen Paul Thomas Anderson's confounding and often hypnotic tale of a battle - scarred World War II veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) and his postwar indoctrination into a Scientology - like religion formed by the title character, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.Ö Some of it is startlingly beautiful cinema, photographed in 70 mm; most of the effective human drama is confined to the first half, but it's well worth the time and effort.

And Farhadi is careful never to get in the way, simply letting tremendous actors play out a very identifiable human drama, one that remains truly cinematic while barely even venturing outside.

The pair play longtime married couple Erik and Dierdre Blake in the national tour of Stephen Karam's Tony Award - winning comedy - drama «The Humans,» which comes to the SHN Orpheum Theatre June 5 - June 12.

Michael B. Jordan — who starred in director Josh Trank's first film Chronicle (2012) and the acclaimed drama Fruitvale Station (2013)-- plays Sue's adoptive brother Johnny Storm / Human Torch, who is able to engulf his body in flames, control fire, and fly.

However, from the few hours I played, Detroit Become Human felt closer to cable TV quality drama than a video game.

«Being a teenager is like a concentrated moment of the human condition — all of the successes and pitfalls all being played out in one messy drama.»

The effect is of the entire ensemble gathering in a pre-arranged spot to witness a human drama — often a love affair — play out before their very eyes.

The drama of the future of the Amazon basin is indeed playing out here in western Amazônia, in the tri-national region called by the acronym MAP — Madre de Dios in Peru, Acre in Brazil and Pando in Bolivia — where the biodiversity of nature's garden is connecting with human aspirations for economic development and a better life.

«The One I Love» is a romance and a mystery and a drama, with really only two characters in it, characters who are sketches approximating human beings, but played with sadness and humor by the two lead actors.