Sentences with phrase «movie as an allegory»

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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.

As with Aronofsky's insane biblical allegory, we're really not sure who this movie is meant to be for.

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.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

Although the «Hunger Games» movies haven't lived up to their potential as political allegory, the «Divergent» series hardly bothers with such ideas.

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.

As the second half of the movie comes around, one wouldn't be criticised for saying that «codes» are an allegory for Turing's sexual orientation.

And the arc of the movie, in which Luke is indoctrinated into an all - male world of regimentation, brutality, and the following of orders that can seem bafflingly pointless, marks it as one of the earliest American studio films to function as a sustained Vietnam War allegory.

Interpreted variously as a preachy liberal fable, an allegory of the McCarthy era and as a commentary on U.S. involvement in both Korea and WWII, it stands first and foremost as a fine, classic western movie.

Showing at Panic Fest this weekend in Kansas City, «The Cured» starring Ellen Page, is a zombie movie as sociopolitical allegory.

The political allegory component of the story isn't particularly compelling — it's been interpreted as a commentary on the hysteria of Trump era — but as a movie about parental anxieties, it's steely and effective.

It's an impossibly tense horror movie but equally valuable (and equally intense) as a socio - political allegory, a blistering critique of a culture that has been all too willing to forgive itself.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

The movie doubles as a political and environmental allegory like so many horror classics but mocks student activists and makes victims out of those who attempt to halt the encroaching bulldozers.

«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.

The main competition is filled with movies about the ailing world of limited means and unjust distribution of wealth, and after the bizarre and derivative allegory of labor in Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor and Amir Manor's astutely titled Epilogue, which played like Michael Haneke's Amour, only capitalism as a stand - in for death, the main competition now brings us Sylvie Michel - Casey's Our Little Differences.

Mendelsohn has written an allegory about the precarious state of the American teenager in a culture that sucks the life force out of its young, who are nurtured by movies and fantasy and narcissism rather than by values such as honesty or love.