Sentences with phrase «narrative focuses»

The narrative focuses on the social politics behind the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India.

The critical narrative focuses on the belief that Ghomeshi was factually guilty — the belief that he did in fact commit the physical and mental elements of the offences with which he was charged — and on the pain suffered by the complainants from the original events, through having to testify and be cross-examined, and the judgment that criticized them.

The defending narrative focuses on the presumption of innocence.

This time, the narrative focuses on a woman named Jodie Holmes, and follows her through 15 years of her life as she struggles to understand ever - present spiritual entity named Aiden.

The narrative focuses on the cult leader and the sadistic members of his family that make up his band of lieutenants.

Set in a small Midwestern college town, the narrative focuses on Tassie Keltjin, a 20 - year - old...

The globetrotting narrative focuses on the abortive prostitutional dalliance of a miscellaneous International Business Traveller played by Jude Law, another of the dweeby, Beta - male characterisations he's getting worryingly good at.

In a film that sits somewhere between Munich, The Baader Meinhof Complex and The Last King Of Scotland, the narrative focuses on the two West German terrorists and former lovers, Wilfried Bose (Daniel Bruhl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike).

But after a pacy early scene in which courier Lara leads a wild bike chase through East London, the action reverts to the tried - and - true as the narrative focuses once again on tomb raiding, ruthless mercenaries, mad races through the jungle, much hanging from precipices, secret chambers being penetrated and dormant curses being unleashed after two thousand years.

The narrative focuses on June and Daltry's adjustments to one another as their lives take upward and downward swings.

Set amid the chaos, violence, and anger of the riots that dominated Motor City during the summer of 1967, the film's narrative focuses on the police brutality that took place at the Algiers Motel on July 25 and 26 of that year, and the justice system's subsequent whitewashing of that heinous event.

The narrative focuses on the reuniting of the trio and the task of taking a body home for burial.

The new central narrative focuses on all the new characters and very little on the original cast.

The narrative focuses on Miguel's desire to find his father, Hector's love for his daughter, and the shared bond that develops between the two.

Tyerman's massive narrative, recently reissued, is the more conventional book, a narrative focused principally on the «Numbered Crusades» to the Middle East and the Crusader states established there.

In 1988, the narrative focused on Los Angeles.

Even games that have more narrative focus on the world will use cutscenes effectively.

Narrated by each character in shifting turns, «Mudbound» presents a fascinating exercise in perspective and narrative focus, weaving in and out of the two families» stories and the constantly changing dynamics of dominance and dependence, all of it set against a backdrop of poverty and the unforgiving forces of nature.

The narrative focus on Cunanan — he's the story — is what holds this 10 - part saga together, and it does so compellingly throughout.

This is a much different project, of course, both in terms of setting and story, and the screenplay could use more narrative focus in its first half.

Its narrative focus leans the movie toward having more of a white - savior complex, even though that does make Garrett Hedlund's portrayal of Burden a very complicated type of hero.

Though carefully rendered from a historical perspective, this powerful account of female friendship and bonding under the most cruel conditions lacks the narrative focus and dramatic shapeliness to generate emotional excitement.

Rosemary Myers» Girl Asleep (2015) is preoccupied with crossing borders, from its medium and genre to its narrative focus on the dreamlike...

The 20 - year - old kiwi has made a career out of making teenage drama a narrative focus.

That Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi, a third minor return from the original, is given short shrift, suggests that most of the characters exist merely as vain stereotypes given simplistic narrative focus that evaporates once the action comes into full focus.

Lack of dramatic and narrative focus was another problem in the original movie.

Logically the narrative focus should be on Christopher Plummer's character but Heath Ledger's and the side - characters» presence distracts from this.

Yet the latter World War Two - set picture is a languid work lacking narrative focus.

True, one of the scenes features a singing Kylie Minogue — always a plus — who plays a female counterpart to Monsieur Oscar, but the constant shifting of narrative focus begins to feel as gimmicky as it is intriguing.

Unlike The Silent Revolution, The Captain's narrative focus is not on the victims (who eventually become victors) of history but the perpetrators — a true rarity in the history of German cinema that is made even more remarkable by the fact that the film does not concern itself with the famous culprits (as does Oliver Hirschbiegel's Der Untergang [Downfall, 2004]-RRB- but, rather, with the «unknown» wrongdoers, that is, the «little guys» who, once afforded the opportunity, displayed the same murderous tendencies than their more famous leaders.

On Wednesday, November 1st, nestled in the midst of this twelve day celebration of Israeli filmmaking, sits the 6th Annual Films By & About Women, showcasing the work of female filmmakers and films with a narrative focus on the female perspective.

While The Lost Legacy has an obvious narrative focus, you can diverge from this regularly, searching for picturesque vistas to reflect upon, treasures to gather or groups of enemies to eliminate, either stealthily or with guns blazing.

Visually speaking, the city streets feel very close to the urban landscape of Blade Runner — this is a very bleak film, and unfortunately that darkness never feels connected to a larger theme or narrative focus.

Surely this is an element of the overall feeling of detachment from the movie, and the lack of narrative focus drags the front - loaded first act (A subplot involving the identical, bumbling Inspectors Thompson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) and a pickpocket (Toby Jones) only provides some stilted comedy; something is off about the physics of this animated world).

As far as I can tell, the closest the film gets to a narrative focus is probably the feud between Roland and The Man in Black.

It is the doubtful that this will be the narrative focus of the 10th sequel.

I would suspect that this narrative focus — in itself — would have the Yahoo! News crowd crying foul that the film is a left - wing hatchet job that seeks to turn Oscar Grant into a Jesus Christ figure.

Mixing visceral, documentary - like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.

The intermission marks more than just a shift in narrative focus from Rana to Kochadaiiyan but in Ashwin, who then takes what works best to the next level by completely embracing both the story's inherently exaggerated nature as a «legend» and, more importantly, the fantastical unreality of and the unbridled creative freedom granted by her chosen filmmaking approach.

The script's narrative focusing is its greatest strength and greatest asset to the film.

With its narrative focus on outward threats and their actual contentious campaigning tactics, Suffragette sacrifices a potentially thought - provoking look at the lives and emotions of the suffragettes themselves.

The semi-open world structure, loot system, and a much deeper narrative focus work well, but are all trends being pushed by most other big games»

Mamet and his actors deliberately establish their characters, with Mamet moving the narrative focus among them for best result.

Decisions like this that add texture to an otherwise rote war narrative focusing on the last hope a giant robots offers.

The schoolyard drama and the tumultuous romance between Chloe and Rachel Amber, which were the primary narrative focus in

For all that the film revises our view of Mary simply by placing the narrative focus more on her, its more radical specific changes are actually connected with the men who are treated very leniently.

Telling the tale of a young lady returning home to her family's rural Oregon homestead, Gone Home was an interesting, and successful, twist on narrative focus in games.

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Oldboy was amazingly paced, but quite a small scale movie, the narrative focused on the hauntingly surreal journey of one man.

In another interview you explain how you chose the narrative focus from anecdotes provided by Mya's friends.