Sentences with phrase «obvious metaphor for»

Lucky has the same affection pouring out of it, which makes it easy to forgive its clumsier attempts at symbolism (there's a much - discussed lost tortoise that serves as a cheerfully obvious metaphor for Lucky's own hard - shelled existence) and its mostly caricatured picture of community.

Discovered one night by troubled little Samuel (Noah Wiseman) and read to him by his mom, long - suffering palliative - care nurse Amelia (Essie Davis — stardom awaits), the book foretells the arrival of a Jack White - looking thing (Tim Purcell) that serves as an unfortunately obvious metaphor for repressed grief.

Not exact matches

There's an obvious carnality metaphor here (college is a time for experimentation) and there's a clear entertainment factor in watching a meek character assert herself.

But for all that Braff loves an obvious metaphor, he doesn't seem to know quite how to fit this one in.

In a very obvious way, Raw is a metaphor for what can and often does happen to a sheltered girl when she leaves home for college.

There is, of course, no structural reason for the stage in terms of narrative — Melanie Oliver's editing is, after all, more responsible for the film's allegro tempo than Wright's staging — but as a metaphor for the aristocratic world wherein the majority of the film takes place, it has some appreciated if obvious bite (Wright ensures his intentions by juxtaposing natural environments when Levin returns to his home in the country).

Many argue for the more obvious theory that the creature is a metaphor for sexually transmitted diseases, given that the curse that attracts it to victims is passed on via sex.

Even if you take its unfathomable action as a metaphor for maternal anxiety — which is surely the point of the exercise — it's dismally obvious stuff.

As he edges further and further from the church he'd once cocooned himself in, Toller sees his body degrade more rapidly, an obvious but effective metaphor for the miserable state of the world.

It's tennis - playing - style as (obvious) metaphor for human relationships.

As for the movie's heart, the most effective speech is probably when Jason Segel muses on the stale donuts, even though Mindy Kaling nearly ruins it by making the metaphor obvious later in the movie.

For this sad but ultimately optimistic tale of estranged brothers reuniting under strained, phony circumstances, Anderson, Coppola, and Schwartzman set up a literal scenario to showcase the old metaphor that life is a journey, and while some of that theme gets blatantly obvious near the somewhat problematic end, the journey of the film itself more than compensates.

In the visual metaphors of his videos, sculptures and drawings, Cass highlights the materiality of elements — through the intensity of colors, the texture of objects and the brutality of actions — in order to reach for a poetic, political and spiritual meaning, beyond what is obvious and visible in the work.