Sentences with phrase «moral person in this film»

Robert Pattinson is clearly relishing putting the Twilight franchise ever further in his career's rear - view mirror, but even when you think his Jerome is just about the only vaguely moral person in this film's twisted universe there comes a twist which throws you completely off, as the script essentially points out that Hollywood is a corrupt and corrupting place where no real human values apply.

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Unsurprisingly, allegory places significant constraints on the film actors, who are forced to put life into characters that are moral abstractions, not people, restricted in manner of behavior, expression and thought.

Baena uses one of the stories of The Decameron as the inspiration for a comedy of religious people who don't exactly have the expected moral code for a film set in a 14th century convent.

I was also disappointed with the film's lack of interest in Shannon as a person because I feel like there was potential to build on her thoughts on life and her own morals instead of focusing way too much on Amy coming to grips with her life.

Like all of Rohmer's films, this one observes a moral dilemma in which some people act well and others badly; it has the visual beauty of an engraving, a pace that echoes the inexorable progress of the revolution, and the belief that it is less important whether you are Left or Right than whether you behave bravely in accord with your principles.

This is a film in which acknowledging error is treated as some terrible surrender and betrayal of trust; in actual journalism, it's considered a moral obligation — one that, sadly, most people in the field have had some experience with, in one capacity or another.

During the bizarre (and embarrassing) courtroom melodrama that serves as the film's framing story, her hockey star attorney Bill (Woody Harrelson) will object to an exhumation of her sexual history — but by the time people have finished standing up in the gallery in a show of Dead Poets Society moral support, it's evident that for director Niki Caro and screenwriter Michael Seitzman, that Josie's sexual history be clean as the driven snow means absolutely everything.

While his detractors blame Kinsey for much of the looseness of morals that developed in the decades following his published studies, Condon's film seeks to make him somewhat of a hero, as sexual repression and lack of adequate education were responsible for a high number of unhappy and confused people who saw anything but heterosexual intercourse as deviant behavior — even oral sex was against the law in some parts of the United States at the time.

«Physics, you either are attracted to people or you're not,» Therese says, in one of the only conversations in the film that actually addresses the «moral misconduct» as it's referred to in this time period.

This moral struggle makes the film not only a mini-study of philosophy and psychology, but more important, a nail - biter thriller in which tension comes from the hesitations and even the comic examination of people who are most concerned with covering their own butts by avoiding a decision to let the bombs rip.

The flip side — the meme - generating contrarian takedown of a critical or popular favorite, however cleverly executed — is just as reactionary if couched in moral terms that reassure readers that certain types of films are for certain types of people.

The guide provides instructional materials to help educators explore background information about the Holocaust, understand manifestations of historical and current day anti-Semitism around the world, delve into the moral themes of courage, justice and truth presented in the film and expand possibilities for young people to deepen their understanding of the film with reading, writing and other extension activities.