Sentences with phrase «much emotional heft»
Just like that scale model of a Civil War battle, the outcome of The Grand Budapest Hotel is never in doubt — no matter the meticulousness of its simulacra — nor, as a consequence, do the tribulations of his tin soldiers have much emotional heft and attachment.
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The film's virtually a solo effort for much of the running time, and Bullock (who won four years back for «The Blind Side «-RRB- is doing something different here from the bulk of her work in the last few decades (you have to go back to «Speed» for its closest counterpart, and there's much greater emotional heft here).
It is not concerned with the wider political issues of the period, but a little more specificity would certainly help the film, as both its lack of nuance and persistent plotting issues frequently undermine much of the potential emotional heft.
Talking of the emotional heft of objects, one of the things that I found immediately moving about the film is the sense it has of a world where images are scarce, and where something like a rosary bead can be invested with so much longing.