Sentences with phrase «morality tale»

The end result reveals that A Family Man is a simplistic morality tale, in which the wrong people are punished for the actions of the bad.

This is a grim morality tale that can't help putting you in someone else's shoes, wondering what you would do if you were in the same situation.

Not that, even back then, this zero - to - hero morality tale was penned in a vacuum.

The story could actually take place anywhere, but wisely uses the isolation of the moon as a device to spin a poignant morality tale.

The Ray Bradbury short story «A Sound of Thunder,» an unnerving morality tale about modern man's arrogant disregard for nature, ends with time - traveling dinosaur hunters returning to the future to discover that by stepping on...

In the genre's heyday, movies such as Wall Street and The Firm were really wish - fulfillment fantasies barely disguised as morality tales.

Based on the international best - seller by Dave Eggers, The Circle is a thrilling modern morality tale starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Read More →

It is a simple morality tale of light vs dark, realised through Tetsuya Nomura's Golden Age Final Fantasy lens.

Nicolas Cage plays a Ukrainian immigrant who becomes an international arms dealer in this sardonic morality tale from writer - director Andrew Niccol («Gattaca»).

The basic bundle includes a gritty and fast - moving thriller from the sensational Russell Blake, a gripping morality tale set in the world of animal testing from J.E. Fishman, a tale of wrongful conviction and potential redemption from Joshua Graham, an espionage thriller filled with nonstop action from Allan Leverone, and a shocking novel of our prison system gone awry from C.J. West.

Written as a wake - up call for Australians by an Australian, its story is a powerful morality tale for all of us living in increasingly paranoid nations.

A simple morality tale where the good guys wear white hats (hurrah!)

Part comedy of manners, part morality tale, Little Women is more interested in its heroines «conquering themselves» than in a man conquering their hearts.

Based on the international best - seller by Dave Eggers, The Circle is a thrilling modern morality tale starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Boyega.

If there's one thing we've learned about filmmaker Asghar Farhadi it's that he's inclined to construct morality tales (A Separation), his films often border on extreme melodrama (The Salesman) and he's fixated with shooting in any sort of confined apartment, home or dwelling (The Past).

But a cult audience with a penchant for SF morality tales may warm to this chilly girl - who - fell - to - earth story.

Even more mature and patient than expected, especially for a filmmaker who has made a name on thoughtful and contemplative morality tales, «The Immigrant» won't be for all audiences, but it's still one of our favorites that we've seen so far, and boasts yet another astonishing performance from Phoenix, who is late - on revealed as just as pivotal to the film as Cotillard.

Daryl Hannah and Martin Sheen co-star in Oliver Stone's gripping morality tale about the American dream gone wrong.

REVIEW: Z FOR ZACHARIAH may have the trappings of a genre film, but at its core it is a straight morality tale not all that different from director Craig Zobel's last film, COMPLIANCE.

The best that someone like you can come up with in return is to quote a few verses in the collection of myths and morality tales called «the Bible».

Flannery sees global warming as a stark morality tale, with fossil - fuel companies as the forces of darkness, engaged in «digging up the dead.»

That makes the film a pretty straightforward morality tale about a man, who actually does have a soul, weighing the price of taking advantage of people, who are just like him, against the need to provide for his family, who are living in a hotel with a group of other people who have been evicted from their own homes.

Offers a few good stirring moments before it stumbles into an uninteresting cautious morality tale.

It's an old fashioned morality tale that only Clint Eastwood could bring to life.

'80s - set corporate morality tale A MOST VIOLENT YEAR has been earmarked as one to watch more than most.

As Roxane Gay notes in her book of essays «Bad Feminist»: «Tyler Perry loves to tell a good morality tale.»

Unfortunately, unless you are particularly taken with Brit Marling or cautionary morality tales with little to no moralizing, Another Earth has little to offer.

-RRB- set their Kafkaesque morality tale in 1967 in Minnesota, where a Jewish physics professor, Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg,

«I was riveted by AFTER THE CUP from the jump,» said Marchetti, «This film gives us a rousing underdog sports story and a powerful morality tale, and combines them expertly to provide audiences with everything that they could want in a documentary.»

Psychopaths aren't just the villains in slasher movies and Wall Street morality tales.

What it's about: A message - heavy morality tale starring Bing Crosby, «Going My Way» is about a popular youthful pastor giving a group of young kids direction in life while winning over the more conventional pastor who lead the parish before him.

Your old stories are the fantasy tales of ancient Middle Eastern men - creative guys, with perhaps a smidgeon of facts about their tribe's history and a few beneficial morality tales, but mainly myth, fantasy and supersit.ion.

I'm not trying to demean the bible, I think its a general morality tale to treat your fellow man with respect.

Though Focus on the Family's well - loved radio program usually spouted tight morality tales based in the present, the idea of adapting Bible stories must have been too strong for the creators to resist.

If, moreover, one thinks of the tree as the motherly feminine or as a symbol for the whole of nature, the shadows lengthen into a bleak morality tale about an oblivious male chauvinism or about an environmentally destructive anthropocentrism, both ominously foretold when, early on, the boy gathers leaves and weaves them into a crown and struts about playing king of the forest, his nose lifted high in the air.

And where such serialized magazine writers as Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe had captured the imagination of nineteenth - century readers with their latter - day Morality Plays carried in Harpers Bazaar and other periodicals, now such new slick - paper magazines as Liberty, Saturday Evening Post and Colliers provided color versions of those same morality tales to twentieth century readers.

The bits of verified Middle Eastern Hebrew history and some basic morality tales are the skivvies.

When it was announced that the 1987 dystopian morality tale RoboCop was being remade, yep, fans complained.

It successfully portrayed the Brent Spar saga as an environmental morality tale: Good Greens versus the Bad Oil Company.

Those masters of small - scale realism, Belgian brothers Luc and Jean - Pierre Dardenne, have created yet another beautifully acted, exquisitely observed morality tale in The Child.

By the time the film plummets to its rock bottom, we find ourselves in a flag - waving no - brainer of the first order, and one of the most thoroughly confused morality tales in recent memory.

Following the caustic Ivansxtc (based on The Death of Ivan Ilyich) and his claustrophobic adaptation of Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, Boxing Day transposes the short story Master and Man to the snowy climes of Denver and turns it into an insightful modern day morality tale of greed, opportunism and friendship.

And like Payne's 1996 gem Citizen Ruth, Election is a sophisticated morality tale.

In other hands this would be an anti-fame morality tale.