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A whole narrative thread with Michael Stuhlbarg's Hoffstetler serving as a covert spy also serves little purpose in the grand scheme of the film, only really establishing the era's geopolitical stakes.

However, Villeneuve and company do unfortunately leave a few characters and intriguing narrative threads with little to no resolution, especially in the final act.

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This thread gave me increased amounts of courage to own my deep discomfort with the narrative about forgiveness as a tool of oppressors and silencers.

6 the narrative thread is coherent and, with the exception of I Sam.

The averted sacrifice of Isaac; the prophets» condemnation of scapegoating the widow, the weak or the foreigner; the story of Job; the Psalms» obsession with the innocent victim of collective violence; the passion narratives» transparent account of Jesus» death; the confessions of a new community that grew up in solidarity around the risen crucified victim: all these follow a constant thread.

Isabel's quest to be reunited with her husband provides the narrative thread for Whitaker's lively chronicle.

It's ultimately clear that The Finest Hours is at its best in its relatively propulsive first half, as director Craig Gillespie, working from a script by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, does a nice job of establishing the the central characters and the dangerous circumstances in which they find themselves - with the screenplay, which also emphasizes the ongoing exploits of Bernie's girlfriend (Holliday Grainger's Miriam), generally juggling the various narrative threads to seamless effect.

An imaginatively constructed soap - opera with a high - powered cast, this film follows several narrative threads, all involving unfulfilled Los Angeles women who find inner peace after learning there are worse things than loneliness.

With all that in mind, it's surprising that Power would opt for a fractured timeline with three different, overlapping narrative threWith all that in mind, it's surprising that Power would opt for a fractured timeline with three different, overlapping narrative threwith three different, overlapping narrative threads.

And though that may limit the willingness of some to embark upon Park's vision, those willing to invest in the various threads of his ouroboros narrative and allow themselves to become an author in Park's craning whirligig of Shakespearean tragedy and sardonic sexual exasperation will find the The Handmaiden is filled with sick pleasures many and makes for a rather rewarding cinematic experience.

What's worse, the movie often stumbles into outdated tropes about transgender people, and struggles to establish a narrative thread that connects a relatable character arc with the broader topic of trans culture exploration.

To get the narrative drive she needed out of her soundtrack Ramsay was desperate to get the unique talents of her «We Need to Talk About Kevin» composer Jonny Greenwood («Phantom Thread») onboard, but the Radiohead guitarist - turned - Oscar nominated composer was on tour with the band.

The two narrative threads collide with Taylor's most elaborate set piece, as Thor fights simultaneously between universes, a battle that is undone by Thor's own indestructibility.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

Monahan, having won the Oscar for «The Departed,» is completely in his element with noir scripts, setting up compelling narrative threads and knocking out smart, fast, sometimes - funny lines.

With Trudell's lifeline as the narrative thread, this biopic journeys in and out of modern Indian history and politics, exploring the earth - infused philosophy and motivations of Trudell's radical acts and thought, as well as reliving the loss and heartache that prompted his activism to evolve abruptly into artistic expression.

Playing fast and loose with its twists, Exorcist: The Beginning also lacks anything resembling a narrative thread, jumping instead from one cheap shock to another.

Within the loose narrative framework of people finding their way to one big Big Apple bash on the Eve of 1982, Garcia and screenwriter Shana Larsen, both first - timers, do come up with one completely successful plot thread: that of platonic friends / roommates Kevin (Paul Rudd) and Lucy (Courtney Love).

The protagonists sometimes meddle to right wrongs which then shape the future, or they may observe narrative threads unfurl in the past with consequences revealed in their own timeline.

Bridges between each thread are built with dry, history - lecture sequences that are equal parts salient info and narrative distraction.

Terrence Malick's latest game of twiddle sticks cinema peppers the landscape of celebrity ennui with vacuous narrative threads and listless visual poetry.

Essentially a bunch of sketches tied to the narrative thread of the road trip to end all road trips (until they all did it again in National Lampoon's European Vacation two years later), Vacation provided Chase with the perfect comedy vehicle.

- The Independent (UK) «Memories aren't always connected by reason, but Barry proves more adept than most at twisting their threads together with narrative panache.»

Pears wrote in the Guardian that he decided to build an app to make it easier to play with narrative structure, and to allow readers to leave out any threads that «may displease.»

Her story is masterfully braided together with two other narrative threads.

But the narrative thread that vaulted the book to the front of the publication queue has to do with Philip Hadi, a somewhat mysterious and very wealthy New York money manager who owns a summer place in Dee's fictional Berkshires town of Howland.

There's a very loose plot thread connecting all of the various missions that Mondo embarks on, with the occasional snippet providing brief hints at the overall narrative throughout, but it doesn't actually come together until the very end and doesn't make a whole lot of sense when it does, and will likely leave you wondering why any of it happened.

Truth be told the quality of both the writing and main narrative thread is all over the place, bouncing madly from genuinely beautifully written moments with emotional impact and outstanding twists sure to leave you with your jaw on the floor to scenes with clumsy dialogue and ideas that just didn't work out as well as I would have liked, though exactly how much of this inconsistency can be put down to translation issues is hard to judge.

Woven around this main narrative thread is the politics of the various groups that inhabit the metro, primarily the Neo-Nazis and the Communists, both of whom somehow carried their ideals with them into the dark, dank world of the underground.

Loot drops are fully geared toward character - specific relevance, and an absolute raft of new Quest lines deliver specific, pre-flagged rewards for experimenting with different play - styles and meta - challenges — now all tied to incredibly welcome, long - term narrative threads that fleshe out the world with genuine warmth.

However there is still a lot to like about Andromeda once you come to terms with its focus on exploration and side - stories over a single captivating narrative thread, and it ends up being a pretty good experience overall.

As you begin your voyage, you'll discover Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate brimming with fresh features: explore vast landscapes through a narrative thread as you voyage with a caravan to discover new villages and people.

It is an oddity that asks players to look at things from a different angle, mixing whimsy visuals and playful interactions with a sense of surprise and discovery, quietly threading an untold narrative.

I do hope the developer tries to release a game with this kind of comedic pacing and narrative thread for a 1 - 2 hour game.

Set in a city that's slowly dying, the game takes place over a period of 3 weeks (or around 6 real world hours) with a non-linear narrative that can be different every time you play depending on which threads you'd like to pull.

Conflicts with the Wilkersons, the nature of a mysterious downed jumbo jet, and various other dangling narrative threads will remain dangling.

In her latest series of work, Michelle creates figurative narratives with her usual needle and thread.

Narrative threads are revealed and renewed with each experience of viewing.

Two narrative threads will unfold throughout the exhibition, circling around the notions of transparency and opacity, and giving vision to Jonas» engagement with the environment and her capacity to not only desynchronize the gaze upon the Self, but to deconstruct the power structures at the heart of the relationship between individual identity and collective memory.

By creating a transparent workspace, both artists give form to the intersection of the real and imaginary, threading new narratives with the impression of fragments collected over time.

The narrative that they came up with — semi-crazed breakdancers with LED lights threaded through their clothing make their way through urban desolation after electricity has disappeared — combines aspects of movies like «28 Days Later» with first - rate documentary reportage of the havoc the storm rent on the urban landscape.

When the Untitled Film Stills series is presented together, as it was exhibited for the first time at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1995, you may begin to notice narrative threads throughout the photos as the same character is found in multiple photos with similar yet different expressions.

With each chapter structured around a specific theme or concept relating to the site in which it is displayed, a loose narrative thread develops over time.

At times, the sculptures draw the threads of peripheral narratives together with the paintings, appearing as familiar, nearly generic stand - ins for constructivist assemblage, reminiscent of El Lissitsky or Naum Gabo.

Through employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, and by interrogating the contested history of Egyptian Museum collections from the 19th century onwards, the exhibition is concerned with the critique of museology, the staging of the artwork and the writing of art - historical narrative as a means of forming and informing cultural otherness.

He pulls at the threads of a particular narrative of spiritual bankruptcy, in which modern man has killed the old gods and replaced them with his own image — which is not necessarily a good thing.

With a particular focus on the experience of British Muslim women, the exhibition is «an accumulation of several narrative threads drawing together intimate conversations between the artist and her two sisters, ominous animated visions of a metamorphosing body, e-learning training on Prevent and staged, performed gestures.»

In doing so, Meryl combines her technical skills with myriad materials with her own personal narrative, building complex, staggering artworks that invite the viewer to divine the threads that influenced her process.

Not being able to identify the faces covered with paint, forces the observer to refer to his own visual experience in order to find threads that will allow him to develop a narrative for the piece.

These raw, gestural works — such as Running with the Mule, Running for Freedom (1990), Everybody Rolling (1995), Dark Day on the Road (1993), and Cousin Irma's Garden (1996)-- build up layers of psychological drama in thick pours and mottled scraps of material that drift along various narrative threads (natural disaster, historical oppression, hope) between the abstract and the figurative.