Sentences with phrase «narrative shifts»

The film's worried narrative shifts between the perspectives of three characters who interact with a series of objects set within carefully designed domestic interiors.

Geifman's narrative shifts back and forth between prerevolutionary Russia and modern Islamism, hammering away at contemporary intellectual apologies for the Russian Nihilists, a precedent for today's intellectual apologies for terrorism.

Along the way, the Trice narrative shifted to fit the movement's purposes, casting him as a racial martyr.

Because of the sudden tonal narrative shift it leaves it hard to invest emotionally in any of the characters

The problems with this dull, drawn - out film announce themselves early on through Dario Marianelli's bombastic musical score that attempts to mask narrative shifts that clash rather than mesh with the aural hamburger - helper.

With an inventive structure and a clever narrative shift, what begins as the story of a 25 - year - old editorial assistant in early - 2000s New York turns into the tale of an Iraqi - American economist detained at Heathrow on his way to Iraqi Kurdistan.

It's the most startling narrative shift since the end of Red Dead Redemption and as near as I can tell, it's Grand Theft Auto V just getting underway.

But apparently there is a massive narrative shift that changes the game drastically and elevates it beyond a generic third person brodude shooter.

Competing narratives shift the ground from under our feet, and laughter collapses our familiar world, reaffirming the ultimate mystery of life.2

Interlocuting performances establish key narrative shifts within the piece, altering the social fabric of the room by presenting actions that go beyond expected boundaries of interaction.

Integrating these optical phenomena into personal narratives shift perception that only the quality of glass itself can generate, transforming emotions into concrete material.

Their bravery and persistence in speaking up has caused an important narrative shift in the gun - control conversation away from politics and towards people.

The Ten Commandments purport to have been given by God and yet after the first two, the text of the narrative shifts from God speaking in the first person to God speaking in the third person.

Suddenly the narrative shifts from, «lol the Nationals keep missing out» to «uh, this Nationals team might already be better than last year's, and there's a lot of offseason left.»

She discovers that as she meets with a kindly sports memorabilia dealer (Jon Hamm, in his sweetest film role) and the focus of the narrative shifts.

For much of Cracks» first two - thirds, Scott and company avoid the obvious melodramatic beats and just let the story unfold, even as the narrative shifts its attention from character to character (much like the book, which was written in first - person plural).

This narrative shift was an unexpected turn from a movie that was marketed, and began, as a lurid piece of sensationalism loaded with scantily clad men gyrating on eager women.

There are some standout scenes here, and certainly defining moments for the central conflict within Caesar's character, yet I couldn't help feeling that the narrative shift put the three - film sweep on pause, exactly when it seemed to be building toward a monumental climax.

No Country For Old Men — Speaking of blowing things up, the Coen Brothers do exactly that in the last third of this film, when the narrative shifts from a conventional cat - and - mouse film with Josh Brolin's Llewelyn Moss and a suitcase full of money on the run from Javier Bardem's oddly coiffed coin - flipping killer Anton Chigurh to a somber meditation on the meaning of violence, stories of violence and the ways we choose to cope with both of those things.

For the giddy middle section, the narrative shifts from the overseas turmoil in favor of a playful interlude about the machinations of the film industry.

The narrative shifts to explaining the mystery around the time travel with the main character leading to the twist that he is cursed while some unknown power is trying to make the character go back through time again.

At the very least, in a bout of casting more intriguing than its narrative shift, «Harry Potter» veteran Daniel Radcliffe will play Igor, while James McAvoy (with all of his «X-Men» credit) is the mad scientist himself.

Will the narrative shift again in the aftermath of a Janus decision that goes against the unions?

As our children age into adolescence, the narrative shifts, and relationships evolve in ways that aren't always comfortable.

Unseen forces are attempting to communicate with Camille and at this point the book's narrative shifts to our second heroine, Camille's «Gram,» Catherine.

The narrative shifts effortlessly among multiple viewpoints within C - for - Charlie Company, from commanding officer Capt. James Stein, his psychotic first sergeant Eddie Welsh, and the young privates they send into battle.

As a writer, I always want to meet the reader at least halfway, so I enjoyed finding ways to create a variety of fixed points in the swirl of time and memory, an internal logic to the narrative shifts.

In The Good Muslim, the narrative shifted to Maya, dissecting the disappointments of living in the aftermath of war, the struggle to find meaning, and the need to take action.

The narrative shifted from scenes in various homes with happy and relaxed families and individuals.

However, when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was unleashed upon a surprised audience, the narrative shifted from historic to Tom Clancy - style modern warfare and considering how well the Modern Warfare series had sold, everybody wanted a piece of the action.

For all the changes Breath of the Wild brings to the Zelda franchise, it's the narrative shifts that are the gems we should be focusing on.

The narrative shifts, and with that, our understanding of the image before us.

By contributing his own unique rendering of Oedipus to the manifold versions belonging to literary and oral history, Cemin underscores the nature of storytelling: its inherently transmutable essence; its ability to espouse a central philosophical tenet even as the particularities of the narrative shift and mutate.

To hear their stories, Parks traveled to Kansas City, Saint Louis, Columbus, Detroit, and Chicago, and his narrative shifted its focus to the Great Migration north by African Americans.

As each face, shape, line, colour is added, it informs the next and the narrative shifts.

Has the narrative shifted?