Sentences with phrase «narrative framing device»

With its clever narrative framing device, a collection of fantastic acting performances, and a deeply expressive combat model, Hanger 13's Mafia 3 wound up being one of the biggest surprises of 2016.

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

It also has one of the most intelligent narrative framing devices, allowing the main character's multiple personality to take life in a way that other games have certainly attempted, but never succeeded (if I say more, I feel I may spoil something).

Not exact matches

From the use of the framing device, insertions of historical footage and animated interludes, to the staging and blocking of the murder scenes, everything serves a purpose that helps build a narrative that's at once lucid and unspeakably nightmarish.

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

The storyline is sort of held together by the framing device of Murphy's narrative, but while it does a job it's still a bit of a folksy irritant.

Szifrón avoids a lot of elements one expects from anthology films these days; no framing device, no wraparound story, and no narrative links between segments.

The framing device that depicts unresolved black urban violence suggests a narrative lapse, yet it's very different from the patronization of political media - makers today.

Each also uses a different framing device, letting DICE experiment with narrative styles.

In a tonally bizarre framing device that never feels right, the film uses John Holmstrom (Josh Zuckerman), founder of Punk Magazine, as the audience proxy into the venue's happenings, and it also uses his publication's cartoonish aesthetic as narrative punctuation.

Gomes pulls out every storytelling trick in the book: prologues and epilogues, prolix voiceovers and copious on - screen titles, nested narratives and off - kilter framing devices.

Is it that difficult to come up with a different framing device for a narrative?

Really though, this narrative is merely a framing device for the game, and after the cutscene it's non-existent.

The installation is an effective framing device for the overtly narrative and conversational videos.