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And then, sadly, in the final act, he undoes much of the good that has come before, ignoring the carefully interwoven narrative threads in favor of an eruption of violence.

Metal Gear Solid 3's story is the tightest and most thrilling of the bunch, using a pastiche of 1960s spy movies to tell the origin of just about every single narrative thread in the series.

Later that year, she served as the narrative thread in the Ron Mann - directed documentary «Altman,» which chronicles the life and work of the late director.

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This becomes an important thread in the narrative later, so remember this.

These purposes are realized in a series of events that Gabriel Fackre calls the red thread through Scripture - the central and defining narrative of Scripture, what we might call God's story of redemption or renewal.

There is no common thread, no common narrative, no set of rules, no dogma, nothing in particular that you can ascribe to atheists as a group.

It is therefore remarkable that, while they vary in detail as honest witnesses will vary in reporting matters which have touched them deeply, they follow the same thread of narrative.

This is not a new insight — Corbin Carnell treated it more than 30 years ago in Bright Shadow of Reality, whose subtitle was the nicely phrased «C. S. Lewis and the Feeling Intellect,» and David Downing also emphasizes it in his new book — but Jacobs uses this narrative thread to good advantage in uncovering continuity in Lewis's life.

Wilson offers no extended comment on the book, even though one of the themes in Faces is related to his narrative thread: namely, the difficulty of coming to know ourselves as we are and the pain such knowledge involves.

tried to show that we can trace in the Gospel according to Mark a connecting thread running through much of the narrative, which has some similarity to the brief summary of the story of Jesus in Acts x and xiii, and may be regarded as an expanded form of what we may call the historical section of the kerygma.

On one hand there is the attempt to unravel the various threads (of the narrative) so that in the end one holds in one's hands what is the «really historical,» which means the purely human element in events.

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.

Along the way, Kean threads in the history of Earth's atmosphere in a surprisingly compelling narrative of geologic history.

The film, whose disparate narrative threads unsurprisingly never connect, drowns in weirdness for its own sake.

In the end, human decency and resilience are this narrative's common threads.

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.

A lot of scenes in the film just don't make any sense and don't add anything to the thread of a narrative that runs through it, but they are striking and do have an effect on you, which is perhaps the purpose.

Unfortunately, he decided to cram most of those narrative threads together in Wish I Was Here, a muddled comedy that feels more like a vanity project than a profound examination of upper - middle class family dynamics.

With all that in mind, it's surprising that Power would opt for a fractured timeline with 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.

It's an essential work, though, serving as a bridge between Peace Walker and The Phantom Pain while setting up some narrative threads that would (mostly) be resolved in the fifth and final entry of the series.

It's perfect for that — you can drop in on it at any point and not be burdened by plot or narrative thread.

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.

Despite being, in a sense, the most straightforward, linear narrative movie the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made in quite some time (perhaps since «Punch Drunk Love» — and this is not the only respect in which the two films resemble each other), «Phantom Thread» could be the filmmaker's most fascinatingly oblique work.

Set in the Barrio La Esperanza area of Puerto Rico, writer - director Angel Manuel Soto's film presents three narrative threads, loosely connected by the poverty, drug addiction and government crackdown experienced in this community.

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.

This is a culmination film ten years in the making and we are pulling the main story threads from all of the different franchises into one unifying narrative.

Earlier points in the trailer suggest Dutch may not have the full backing of the female outlaw, or Bill Williamson, and it seems likely a main narrative thread could revolve around Morgan's efforts to keep Dutch's gang together in spite of his partner's increasing paranoia.

One of the principal threads in «Stories We Tell» is exactly what the title suggests: All families have built - up narratives or jokes («You don't look anything like Dad — but you look like the milkman!»)

Hell, it's a point I've made multiple times over the years, and since Harris includes in the latter category the sort of costume dramas and comparatively straightforward historical narratives that more or less dominated the upper ranks of Slant's top 25 films of the year — namely A Quiet Passion, Phantom Thread, and The Lost City of Z — we self - servingly agree.

David O. Russell's cast shines in this delirious chronicle of the Abscam scandal, but the director occasionally loses his grip on the narrative thread.

Gun culture, racism and the court system are revolving themes in docu subject matters and if there is a common thread to find between his Marc Silver's latest docu 3 and 1/2 and his 2013 Sundance premiered docu - narrative mixer Who is Dayani Cristal?

Rees cuts effortlessly between the various narrative threads (aided by editor Mako Kamitsuna, who previously collaborated on Pariah), and makes some neat connections, such as cutting from a battle in the war to Hap Jackson (Rob Morgan, one of Stranger Things» lackadaisical cops) falling of a ladder.

The only minor nit is that some of the book's final scenes pick up on story threads from much earlier in the series — like from books 3 and 4 — and if (like me) you haven't read those volumes in 15 or so years, the resolution of these dimly - remembered plot points lack the narrative punch they might have had.

These films are all considerably more sprawling than the taut Phantom Thread, but you can see the seeds of this latest film (which Day - Lewis claims is his last) in the others — strange and unsettling narrative turns, idiosyncratic characters, a wicked sense of humor, and an enigmatic screenplay that rewards repeated watching.

The result of these competing narrative threads is decidedly mixed, especially during the period between the conclusion of a frantic sequence in the emergency room and a finale that presents three simultaneous burials.

Between the juxtaposing narrative threads of Cecile serving in the White House and his son fighting for Civil Rights, the latter is the far more interesting and dramatically impacting.

In Mystic River (also based on a Lehane novel), the disparate narrative threads were made to align thanks to the inclusion of a purely irrational character, a psycho ex machina; in Gone Baby Gone, a conspiracy of untrammeled unlikelihood fulfills the same purposIn Mystic River (also based on a Lehane novel), the disparate narrative threads were made to align thanks to the inclusion of a purely irrational character, a psycho ex machina; in Gone Baby Gone, a conspiracy of untrammeled unlikelihood fulfills the same purposin Gone Baby Gone, a conspiracy of untrammeled unlikelihood fulfills the same purpose.

There is a narrative thread about the American dream and how for Dennis, even though he may not like the position he is in, it is not Carver who put him there, but the American banks.

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.

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.

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In the director's chair, Johnson appears unfazed by the daunting task of having to weave these narrative threads into a single coherent tapestry, evolving the developmental arcs of characters both new and old.

Without a story campaign, there presumably aren't any narrative threads directly tying it to the previous Black Ops games, which suggests that using the name is a potentially shallow tactic to hook in fans of the subseries that would otherwise pass on the game were it named something different.

Both films possess only the most meagre thread of what you might term a narrative, but Green has reached a point in his career where he sees that examining the interplay between people and landscapes is more cinematic that focusing on just the people or just the landscapes.

Throw in a handful of other subplots of varying quality, and nobody will accuse «True Blood» of skimping on narrative threads or action, even if some of it is of the fang - gnashing variety and risks choking on its own excess.

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

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.

And all of this is conveyed without a single word, wrapped up in myriad different narrative threads, that readers can explore time and again.