Sentences with phrase «into farcical»

In a witty rebuttal to the president's posturing, Guston caricatured Nixon's self - mythologising identity, sly political manoeuvres, and disposable morals into a farcical cartoon canon.

With a telepathic talking dog as his traveling companion across the apocalyptic waste, he stumbles from the brutally sardonic into a farcical satire of heartland America when he discovers an underground city whose citizens have maintained their apple pie society — at a cost.

However, the closer the film gets to its end, the more it runs out of ideas and evolves into a farcical load of nonsense.

Powered by a vigorous, image - shedding lead turn from James McAvoy as a coked - up Edinburgh detective on the fast track to either promotion or self - implosion, this descent into Scotch - marinated madness begins as ugly comedy, segues almost imperceptibly into farcical tragedy, and inevitably — perhaps intentionally — loses control in the process.

Ford was the one character who lightly veered into farcical, but never fully falls into that mode.

Unlike Kaufman's Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)-- which is directly concerned with the possibility of art in the cinema and ultimately lapses into a farcical parody of the Hollywood style — Eternal Sunshine presents its viewer with a classical boy - meets - girl, boy - loses - girl, boy - gets - girl romance structure.

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And then there was an almost farcical round robin of screwups that included the hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO in September, 2010 only to fire him a year later, largely due to the Autonomy deal which degenerated into charges and countercharges of fraud between HP and former Autonomy execs.

I don't think it could be considered even a 50/50 decision where Wenger could «call the ref's integrity into question» and it certainly could not be called «farcical» and be used as evidence of a vendetta against Arsenal by the officials.

It's the same old story with AW and the board and always the cheaper option, despite the fact that we COULD actually challenge for trophies next season as other issues have now come into play, Wenger will say «well we would buy Suarez but he's not available, Benzema does not want to leave Real Madrid» ect ect ect, but these are always excuses after the event these players would move if the right offer was made we could have got Higain two seasons ago the attempts at getting Suarez were truly farcical AND Im not convinced that it wasn't done that way so as to make it look like we tried when really we had no intention of paying 40 million for him.

The play dives deep into the secret world of the whips who roll up their sleeves and go to often farcical lengths to influence an unruly chorus of MPs.

It promises to draw the listener «into 19th - century France and the tragic, farcical reign of Napoleon III, as it marches forward towards a modern, industrialised society».

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

There's a wonderfully sly, farcical verve to these early moments, but it dissipates when the script, with its strains of E.T. and The Fly, moves into high sci - fi gear.

As such, «Django Unchained» is obviously a companion to «Inglourious Basterds,» in which Mr. Tarantino had the audacity to turn the Nazi war against the Jews into the backdrop for a farcical, ultraviolent caper.

When you see the poster for this film, with a moustachioed Ryan Gosling sitting on his sofa, grinning from ear to ear and accompanied by a sex doll, you be forgiven for entering into this and expecting some form of farcical sex - comedy.

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

Fremon Craig sees her characters whole; she extends grace and understanding in every direction and deftly spins the farcical third - act complications into a series of small but significant emotional breakthroughs.

Austrian filmmaker Daniel Hoesl came into recognition via his feature debut Soldate Jeanette (Soldier Jane, 2013) and continues his acerbic pillory of capitalism in the farcical sophomore feature WiNWiN.

Dead Poets Society screenwriter Tom Schulman's work is simply but effectively constructed, the farcical events forcing the pair of well - matched leads into comically and diametrically opposed character arcs, with Murray slowly regaining his dignity and Dreyfuss steadily going mad over the course of a fleeting hour and forty minutes.

Nothing is forced in a film that sees a mysterious hobo turn into a vengeful mercenary in a seamless journey from WALL.E to TAXI DRIVER with all the dark comedy and farcical elements that make The Coen Brothers» films so special.

There are moments when generic boundaries blur and the movie threatens to abandon its dramatic aspect and dissolve into romantic comedy territory and, charming as these moments are, at times it makes the audience forget the purpose of the story, and turns slightly farcical.

The plot and character development of Sabine de Barra, which may have initially appealed to Winslet, owing to a feminine victory over patriarchal social structures, is wholly abandoned and the narrative evolves into a love affair between a noble man and a subordinate woman, an affair that is implausible, farcical and simply too convenient.

After a slightly slow start during which Buckley introduces his characters, provides them with motive and generally lays the groundwork, Boomsday develops into a mischievously farcical tangled - web of generational warfare and political backstabbing, set against the background of the failing Social Security system and the general collapse of the American economy.

However, it's all too easy to fall into the trap of making their representation farcical, and I fear that Kindred Spirits might do just that.

Without devolving into the antics of Miley Cyrus, Kimye, and Jeff Koons that week — the belief that this affair had anything to do with art seemed farcical.

All levels of government in Australia are crying poor yet they shamelessly continue to pour millions of dollars into the bottomless AGW pit to follow the billions already wasted in a totally futile attempt to achieve their farcical stated objective of «stopping climate change»!

Monbiot, who lives in the United Kingdom, goes on to describe how the dairy industry is protected by the government's Environmental Agency, which conducts «farcical investigations» and fails to prosecute blatant pollution; meanwhile, dairy farmers continue to dump obscene amounts of pollution into waterways all around the world, and dairy cows continue to suffer for longer periods of time even than cows raised for meat.

He needs to understand not what he thinks it says or what he wants it to say or whatever farcical interpretation of contract law he's talked himself into, but what it does in reality say.