Sentences with phrase «of emotional realism»

Prickly, acerbic, and not without its rough edges, it's an enjoyably dark humored film wisely settling for small moments of emotional realism rather than exaggerated dramatic flair or tragicomic satire of its flawed characters.

All efforts to ground the story in some kind of emotional realism are perfunctory and laughable at best.

Not exact matches

Kevin Smith's latest offering provides a constant stream of laughs throughout its duration, but crucially fails to nail the emotional realism it tries so hard to achieve.

His use of perspective throughout is done to perfection and during its Iraq sequences, which are constantly referred to and visible right up until the emotional ending, the higher frame rate only enhances the realism — almost to the point of you looking away from the screen as one of the film's most pivotal moments plays out.

Miller is fascinated with movies that stay anchored in emotional realism while violating the codes of naturalism.

However, the emotional transformation he undergoes is the basis of the story, and is extremely well played with both subtlety and realism, which is due solely to Gyllenhaal's performance.

However, those thoughts never actively entered my mind while watching it, because I was swept up in the emotional realism of it all with nothing but grounded performances from the whole cast.

The result is creative and cute, while simultaneously unleashing flashes of gory horror — a tale of growing pains and parental struggles that never loses realism or emotional weight, even as it sinks its teeth into weirder genre elements with relish.

The film is more ambitious — adding elements of magical realism to his cinema of emotional verité — and having a trusted group of actors on board was surely a help to the young director.

Now add the promise of some magical realism and illuminating, emotional prose and this one just got bumped up on my to - read list.

Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth - century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

There are themes of brotherhood, bonds, and emotional realism.

F1 2014 has already been confirmed to be getting the next - gen treatment however, with Codemasters stating that their aim is to «achieve the most realistic visuals possible» and provide levels of realism that «will enhance the driving and emotional experience for the F1 player.»

Karsten writes: «Weight's paintings are captivating for many reasons - his color sense is perfectly in tune with his mysterious imagery, his realism is modified by the emotions of fear and anguish, and his compositions reveal a deep understanding of 2 - d image structure... It isn't mastery over materials that keeps me looking at Weight's work though - it's his crazy, compelling, haunted voice, and how he gives us a frank look at the unknowable world of individual emotional lives.»

Described as a deeply passionate person by contemporaries such as Nicholas Serota, it is no wonder Hodgkin transformed his experiences into coherent physical objects that contain an evanescent and emotional sense of realism, with which he would rather move the viewer than convey the nature of an extract from his life.

By abstracting common contemporary forms, reordering them in a way intended to evoke an emotional response, he is engaging in what he describes as «a form of contemporary realism.»

The general idea is kept open, both in respect of a desire for an ideal mental clarity, intellectual penetration and clarified form, and in respect of a desire for an ideal of realism, emotional directness and dissolution of form.

Employing a startling Realism, the dynamic compositional sensibility of contemporary photography, and the emotional resonance of Expressionism, Jack Smith has carved out a unique vision in the revival of American portraiture.

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That's great for social - emotional learning advocates, but, to put the cold, hard grip of realism on these statistics, don't expect too much to come from this survey.