Sentences with phrase «narrative coherence»

A fascinating and visually impressive intellectual helter - skelter ride, but the lack of narrative coherence lets down its promising sci - fi concepts and satire.

This week, it explores internal consistency and narrative coherence in games like Mass Effect and Dead Space.]

With his resistance to the very idea of conventional narrative coherence and resolution (beyond mocking their cliches), it's no wonder that the most perfect film Maddin has created so far is probably 2000's «The Heart of the World,» an epic of quasi-archival fetishism just six giddy, succinct minutes long.

It doesn't have much to do with history, has nothing to do with physical possibility, and only has a passing familiarity with narrative coherence.

The final half of the movie seems motivated more by the need to create bold, striking images than for narrative coherence, which may sound Malick-esque but tilts more towards Harmony Korine territory though in less overtly grotesque fashion.

While «Primer» was intellectually dazzling, but chilly and technically makeshift, «Upstream Color» is a virtuoso, hugely accomplished piece of filmmaking that puts emotion above narrative coherence.

It's a film stocked with incidents that deceive, and with moments of alleged narrative import that devolve ad infinitum into fragments that resist narrative coherence.

A large part of the problem I have with Rogue One stems from Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy's conservative screenplay, one in which narrative coherence is favored over character development.

I already suspect that it, like Killer Joe, will be stronger on atmosphere than on narrative coherence, plausibility or cinematic enjoyment.

And like several of his father's films, this one walks a fine line between fascinating ideas taken to logical and literal extremes while maintaining narrative coherence.

Olsen, Creely, and Duncan each had an important influence on Chamberlain; what they did with everyday words, he sought to do with ordinary scraps of metal — arrange the familiar and unspectacular into challenging new configurations that embraced abstraction and defied narrative coherence.

Irgin Sena's work is substantial in its fragility: it explores the ephemerality of the representational structures and systems that constitute the foundations of our need to project significance, and perhaps narrative coherence, onto widely disparate signs.

While the films often scrap narrative coherence, the viewing experience itself feels particularly focused around driving the content of each film forward.

Based on attachment theory and recent findings with adults on relations between narrative coherence and well - being, we hypothesized that mothers who are more securely attached and who cope more effectively would be more engaged and more emotionally expressive in mother - child co-constructed narratives about stressful events.

Macfie and Swan31 found that their children aged 4 — 7 years of mothers with BPD displayed more negative self - representations, more fantasy - proneness and fantasy - reality confusion, lower narrative coherence and more intrusion of traumatic material when participating in a series of role - play scenarios, when compared with children of healthy mothers.

Nothing, however, would have repaired the film's lack of narrative coherence.

Ghost run (1975) meanwhile abandons perspectival logic or narrative coherence in favour of a compression of differently sized, and contrastively rendered, figures — a matron with full breasts, a cavorting girl, or ghostly faces with saucer eyes.

But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

Modern moral philosophy becomes part of the problem, for its stress on autonomy, like its corresponding attempt to free ethics from history, produces people incapable of living lives that have narrative coherence.

Indeed, a sex - free, PG - 13 version of «Freed» could be cut without shedding a second of narrative coherence, such as it is; one could ask what the point of that would be, though similar queries might be leveled at the film as it stands.

It seems Shuji Terayama «s films are hardwired to reject anything in the way of narrative coherence, yet their undeniable efficacy lies in that bizarre, anything - goes atmosphere.

The two sequels that followed — X-Men 2 and X-Men: The Last Stand — lacked the narrative coherence of the first film, but were not without their bright spots.

Abel and Gordon are much better at prolonged jokey setups than narrative coherence, but that speaks to the pastiche they're committed to offering.

And though it lacks the wonderfully gritty texture of Mr. Daniels» last feature — The Paperboy — or the narrative coherence of his film before that — Precious — it still manages to move its audience and serve its story.

It's George Cukor's A Life of Her Own without the focused screenplay, without the narrative coherence and, of course, without the mesmerizing Lana Turner.

What the film lacks in narrative coherence and momentum, rookie director Jerome Reybaud compensates with a layered character study about sexuality and fulfillment, an incisive glimpse into its bucolic setting, and a sometimes playful examination of technology's influence on relationships.

Anne Mangen of Norway's Stavanger University conducted a study in late 2014 and found that students who read print books have a higher degree of empathy and transportation and immersion, and narrative coherence.

Mothers» Expressed Emotion and Narrative Coherence: Associations with Preschoolers» Behavior Problems in a Multiethnic Sample.