Sentences with phrase «narrative device like»

Not exact matches

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.

Not all of it works: Recurring ghostly appearances by the dead Orlando are a hoary narrative device, and Aretha Franklin's «(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman» is a slightly jarring soundtrack choice.

If the revealing of twists through repeating what we have already seen through a new lens sounds like a passé plot device, The Handmaiden «s use of that narrative structure is so precise and absorbing to convince you otherwise.

Projects like Wattpad prove that for many readers dividing a longer narrative into easily digested chunks (usually on a mobile device) is a fun way to follow a story, not so unlike the serial approach employed by Dickens et al. starting in 1836.

In 1939, Isaac Asimov began writing about the Positronic Brain, a reoccurring narrative device which endowed machines with human - like sentience.

While it's clear in many games that there's a core gameplay loop that the game was built around, and you'll often see that loop reused over and over again, A Way Out is built around the story and these gameplay settings feel like narrative devices in hindsight.

To become more like Don't Look Now in placing sex as an important narrative device that impacts the story and its protagonist.

You might also like Device 6 ($ 3.99 on iOS) and 80 Days ($ 4.99 on iOS, Android), which combine deep narratives with a bit of puzzling for a fun interactive adventure.

It's a twist on the lifelogging wearable camera, which included devices like the Narrative Clip, and it uses machine learning to key in on certain people and pets of your choosing and only capture them, so you don't miss out on adorable moments.