Sentences with phrase «more allegory»

He says, «Thompson's» paintings were more allegory of blue, yellow, and red people.

They've either grown more allegory - friendly or abstract (as in Fernando Mereilles's adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel Blindness or M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening) or into some souped - up form of undead rabies (as in 28 Days Later or Omega Man remake Blindness).

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Verse 20 immediately falls under suspicion, since it seems to provide a reason for early Christian fasting, and, more importantly, it uses the allegory bridegroom = Jesus (This allegory is itself a product of early Christian piety, arising out of the concept of the Church as the bride of Christ [II Cor.

It may be a heavy - handed allegory, but Neill Blomkamp's sci - fi blockbuster is part of a wave of recent films concerned with humanity's future — none of... More

Even until this End of Timed Fortuitousness, the godly will ever more endure and be the ammassings» lighted sculptors of a New Dawning of embittered social fragrenced attritions» allegories!

While commentators of an earlier generation sought to save Shakespeare and the Christian characters from the charge of intolerance and anti-Semitism by turning the play into an allegory, more recent readings often maintain, to the contrary, that Shakespeare in fact lays the groundwork for the racialist anti-Semitism of a later era in the character of Shylock.

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

Lord of the Rings, like Narnia is to personal spiritual experiences, is an obvious (not to all) allegory of spiritual reality as is more literally spoken through the Bible, which also allegorizes spiritual experiences.

So the late Paul de Man saw the metaphor as a prime cause of delusion and preferred allegory to metaphor as the safer and more rational way to correct the false heuristics of the latter.

Or do you think those verses might be more of an allegory?

Sometimes, as also among the rabbis, allegory and parable overlap, and we are not in a position to reject those parables which seem to convey more than one meaning or, for that matter, the explanations of the parables which occur in the gospels themselves.

The story is an allegory for the death of Pirola's own father, John, who suffered for years through searing neuropathic pain as a result of a brain stem tumor, and over several years, underwent more than 10 brain / skull - based surgeries.

And he goes on from there; he's built — I won't try to go into any more details than that, but I mean he's got this whole lengthy sort of allegory.

MovieMan, In Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the setting.

A good zombie movie but also more notably a good political allegory,»28 Days Later» works off its» innovative director, even if it is not as quick paced as one might hope from a zombie flick.

More concretely, though, I don't love that in the final scene all of this wonder and madness could, from one interpretation, be reduced to an allegory about relationships torn apart and then repaired, each person different than before, in subtle or profound ways.

The allegory of American rot in The Shape of Water is mythic, but other Toronto hits were more obvious in their political parallels.

The class implications of this allegory are painfully clear: though I suspect that Rockwell's background is more comfortable, the working - class origins of Anders, Rodriguez, and Tarantino (or at least what are perceived as his working - class origins) are central to their movies, and the myth of these filmmakers» ascendancy derives its power from the American dream.

While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.

The story is a tragic allegory about the interdependence of individuals in Japanese society and how this conflicts with individual choice and desire, and I can't imagine it being remade in this country, where the rightness of the heroine's choice would more likely be regarded as self - evident.

An all - ages experience is an extremely rare thing if you think about it, but as I said earlier, if you present an audience, no matter how old, with that spark of awe; if you trust younger minds with more challenging ideas in their allegories, they will rise to the occasion.

Arrival, with its handwringing worthiness and easy answers, certainly meets these criteria as escapist balm for the masses, but this analysis ignores the fact that M Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs is not just a superior film about alien invasion (funnier, darker, more cinematic), but also a stronger allegory for the apocalyptic fever that has gripped America and, by extension, the world.

The story of a fragile community stranded in the desert by a fear - mongering charlatan could have been settled for facile political allegory, yet Reichardt is after something more uncanny and mysterious.

He continued to make many more shorts after he won a Video 8 camera in a Comic Relief contest, awarded him for his film I Want to Get Into the Movies, which was an animated allegory about wheelchair access.

His first feature, the improbable but utterly engaging alien - apartheid allegory ¬ † District 9, has already brought him more acclaim than most filmmakers will ever achieve: a Golden Globe Award nomination, two BAFTA Award nominations and an Academy Award nod, among others.

It would be a stronger film if it was planted more firmly in its allegory, but the multiple possible understandings are a deliberate choice, no doubt.

The story of a married couple (Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem) living in a remote mansion while he deals with writer's block and she renovates the house is simply a structure on top of which Aronofsky layers a series of allegories, each more clearly defined than the last (the man has never been a subtle storyteller).

A movie that has humanoid and monster vampires, the looming extinction of the human race, an environmental allegory, exploding bodies and blood geysers, retro - futurism, and more has no right working.

Although the aliens look more like fashion models than your typical Hollywood extraterrestrial, Mitchell's allegory of youthful rebellion captures a side of the early punk era that is often overlooked: Its optimism, not its nihilism.

There is some kind of irresponsible, biased political allegory within the subtext, but I don't want to waste any more time on this movie and figure it out.

Garrone (whose previous film, the grim sociopolitical mosaic Gomorrah, could scarcely be more different from this loopy fable) doesn't belabor the allegory, but he's not exactly subtle about it, either.

The world of Narnia looks exactly as I had imagined it as a child and, more recently, when I reread C.S. Lewis» cycle of allegories again a few years ago, and that is perhaps the more substantial half of the battle in cinematically translating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Dogville has been frequently compared to Thornton Wilder's Our Town, but it reminds me more of the brilliantly complex allegories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.

But Disney's version is more of an allegory on a girl entering womanhood (including menstruation) than it is about a boy who refuses to grow up.

Without spoiling too much, the switch in settings from a world of us vs. them to a more corporate - driven environment gives us something to chew on: The shift to a less individualized (i.e., more secure) milieu has resonance in that it suggests that They Drive By Night is actually an allegory of the American Dream circa the post-industrial twentieth century — our conscious or unconscious endeavouring to sell out.

The film is entertaining enough, but an uninitiated audience is left too many blanks to fill in — and those in the know will far more readily recognise how much of a retread this is, even with its thinly veiled allegory for American militarism to chew on.

«Get Out» An even more ruthless satire, Jordan Peele's breakout hit isn't so much a horror movie as a heightened allegory of race relations in America today — «a documentary,» as the writer - director slyly teased after the Golden Globes slotted «Get Out» in their comedy category.

Instead, Hadzihalilovic's film becomes an allegory of a young girl's development into womanhood, and when taken on this level the film suddenly becomes a great deal more interesting.

An indicator of this are the Samba Schools that during Carnival may transform global themes in songs, allegories and dances that stimulate millions of people to know more about Brazil and the world's history, realizations and challenges.

Painted by Canadian artist Kenneth Lochhead in egg tempera (it required more than 500 eggs to paint), the mural, entitled «Flight and Its Allegories,» was painted during the terminal's construction in 1958 and 1959.

I've been asked to be on a panel about Butler later in the year, so I'm reading more of her work — right now I'm mid-way through the totally disturbing, totally delightful Fledgeling, a science fiction vampire novel and racial allegory.

Often more like allegories than actual tales, the stories keep her alive through the somewhat cheap trick of cliff - hanger endings while also providing the foundation for the slowly developing trust between Shahrzad and the not - so - evil - after - all caliph.

From a critical perspective it is an awful awful movie that adds ideas that retroactively hurt the better Alien movies, though it might be an hyperbolic statement that will depend how much one does care about that aspect, since certainly Ridley Scott is more interested in using the IP to do creative visuals to tell a really weak allegory of christian themes.

But this show is a more internal body of work; it's about my own mental place in relationship to how I want to form the portraits, which lean more to allegory.

But here, the manner is more like Philip Guston's late figurative allegories, which were a huge influence on younger artists beginning in the «80s.

For its full effect, the isolation and vulnerability of the lamb requires a menace: the wolf in traditional European folklore (sin and the devil in the Christian allegory), in place of which the shark embodies the principle of predatory, soul - stealing monstrosity at a magnified intensity and thrillingly exotic guise more naturally suited to the environment of the tank» (A. Gallagher (ed.)

Immersion in these scenic allegories conjures a renewed sense of optimism — a stalwart suggestion that there might be something more in all of us.

The earliest piece in the show is Swimming, Smoking, Crying (2009), whose title — through an evident nod to Philip Guston's 1973 masterpiece Painting, Smoking, Eating — suggests, albeit more indirectly, that this is another of Schutz's allegories of painting.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

The Derek Eller show was more narrative, thus the title Kitchen Table Allegory.