Sentences with phrase «narrative purpose»

It's the way that the movie feels so cold, and incurious, despite its incredible detail (it's a rare Netflix original film where constant pausing might make it even better) dynamic cinematography (using wide and full aspect ratios for narrative purposes) and general glimmers of newness.

This societal structure is so impractical it's funny, though it serves its ultimate narrative purpose of providing rabid YA fanboys and girls with the same fantasy tribalism that was an appealing foundation for the Harry Potter series.

Critics Consensus: Laden with schmaltz and largely bereft of evident narrative purpose, North represents an early major disappointment from previously sure - handed director Rob Reiner.

Hurly - burly activist sessions spin off in multiple directions, seemingly without a single line of coherent narrative purpose.

Even this story that should be empowering given its protagonist culminates in a scene that fractures the entire narrative purpose of the story.

The two then team up with the likes of a subway conductor named Audrey (Bojana Novakovic), and fellow cops like Garcia (Jacob Vargas) and Sandra Jones (Betty Gabriel), not to mention a blind homeless man named Sarge (Antonio Fargas) whose narrative purpose is profoundly cheap.

I'd guess this made the film just to add some song and dance to the movie; it has a few counterparts as well, and none of them offer any real narrative purpose.

At one point at least, which sees Viktor wildly breaking down a standard jazz tune to lead into a classical melody from home, the musical cue also serves essential narrative purposes, mapping out the emotional turmoil of someone where words alone don't suffice.

The time limit adds a sensible narrative purpose for replays, constantly urging you to hurry along while the well - written prose tempts you away from that goal with its seemingly limitless possibilities for discovery.

Yet the film's more general sense of narrative purpose relates not to these prior films» politics, but contemporary conversations concerned with ethnic difference and cultural migration.

It doesn't have the memorable characters and simple, pure narrative purpose of The Wind Waker, either.

There's also a janitor Rhoda works with who's more of a spirit guide created for narrative purposes than an actual person.

Critic Consensus: Laden with schmaltz and largely bereft of evident narrative purpose, North represents an early major disappointment from previously sure - handed director Rob Reiner.

Let's set the film in the eighties for no real aesthetic or narrative purpose!

Moments like Eric's wife, Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), telling him over the phone that she peed her pants earlier in the day when a colt stomped on her foot serve no narrative purpose yet help form a relaxed, lived - in texture that makes the couple's years of love and struggle instantly recognizable.

The onscreen anguish of the characters may serve a narrative purpose, but it is something I can do without.

The best scenes are those of Keanu bonding with his new owner, Rell, and his best friend, Clarence (Key), a family man whose wife and daughter are conveniently sent out of town for narrative purposes.

Mike Binder is not afraid to deploy sensationalism for narrative purposes.

These scenes have no narrative purpose, although, eventually, their emotional purpose is revealed.

(The season is still split up into episodes for narrative purposes.)

There's no denying that the characters in FFX were clichés, but they were clichés with chemistry and narrative purpose, they were clichés who had to deal with several dramatic conflicts / plot - points which resulted in interesting interactions on their part, the XIII characters just feel like they're going through the motions.

Ostensibly they are there to help newcomers with the unique features of each game and occasionally with navigation, but each one also serves a narrative purpose and has a unique personality.

Aside from the narrative purpose of rescuing Princess Peach — for the umpteenth time — and Cappy's sister Tiara, the driving factor of Mario Odyssey's addictive formula is collecting its celestial goodies.

The level of detail means that really understanding a space takes more than a moment's pause, but nothing in the world is surplus: the clutter has a narrative purpose.

While 2B and 9S may appear relatively stiff and naive, respectively, for narrative purposes, Nier: Automata's cast of side characters — most notable candidates are machine lifeforms Pascal and Emil - are fundamentally interesting, with each struggling to find their own purpose in this demented world.

The Uncharted series wants nothing more than to be ranked alongside the adventures of Dr. Jones, and the game is wise to use a greater variety of action set pieces than its predecessor, and only ever reusing one of them (for narrative purposes).

Stella divorced art from its narrative purpose.

These artists, however, used words for narrative purposes or as humorous visual puns, as seen in Nauman's Waxing Hot (1966 — 67).