Sentences with phrase «into high melodrama»

If it had been produced by a major Western studio, the story no doubt would have devolved into high melodrama with a tidy ending.

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Cho, who disperses drugs and wisdom to the main charactor, for some reason (never fully explained) abhors all the high school melodrama, so coerces the main charactor into taking the cheerleader to a dance.

In other words, with all the high - melodrama and histrionics, it finally, fatally crosses the line into comedy.

Woo balances high octane action, hard edged violence, stylized editing that would make Peckinpah catch his breath, and operatic melodrama into an action movie classic.

The gulf between what she says and what she wants gets played for laughs in Mean Girls, but in her latest film, Sebastian Lelio's Disobedience, it's played for tension and tragedy -LSB-...] The stakes are high, yet Disobedience never slips into easy melodrama.

With four main characters, caught up in a melodrama about divorce, the risk of this story veering into one dimensional histrionics is high, but Farhadi navigates it thanks to an almost novelistic drawing of his characters and narrative.

It's like an American indie reworking of Hollywood high melodrama — initial pettiness and sniping grows into passive - aggressive war between bitchy frenemies in close quarters — but instead of the theatrical thrill of showboating spectacle of divas dueling with sophisticated wit and sneering delivery we get something uncomfortably intimate and personal.

The setting is asked to be the visual representation of the decay of father - son relationships stretching into eternity; the question of whether Cain's transgression is an indelible mark on the soul, passed from generation to generation, finds a weak foundation here in what is essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows.