Sentences with phrase «of grotesque violence»

By situating the audience perspective at the borders of grotesque violence, both at a remove in the case of the CCTV cameras and in decontextualizing, arresting close - ups with the help of cinematographer Tom Townend, Ramsay conveys a more ruminative position on the effects of violence.

Not surprisingly, Saulnier's stylistic fingerprints are all over I Don't Feel At Home, detectable on everything from the contrast - heavy cinematography to a focus on fringe - dwelling lowlifes to the sudden bursts of grotesque violence.

There are sudden bursts of grotesque violence that are jarring and feel real.

There are several interludes of grotesque violence that serve as a reminder of just how inhumanly brutal the whole business was, including a dip into the world of «Mandingo fighting,» which is like cockfighting but with slaves.

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GLAAD takes action against Ticked Off Trannies with Knives: «The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women in ways that make light of the horrific brutality they all too often face.»

Since 2005's «A History of Violence,» Cronenberg has ventured beyond the grotesque allegorical interests of his earlier movies, a shift that has led some longtime fans to assume he has softened up.

From March's twelve - year - old daughter Holly (Angourie Rice) spewing out lines that Black and Anthony Bagarozzi seem to have written solely for shock value, to several grotesque scenes of head - bashing and bone - cracking, to countless inexplicable and pointless deaths by gunfire, the film was too extreme and thoughtless with its violence for my taste.

Lynne Ramsay follows We Need to Talk About Kevin with another masterwork on the cyclical traumas of violence, sporting a poetically grotesque performance from a -LSB-...]

This story about a resurrected ancient Chinese warrior is nearly non-stop confrontation and violence, yet it falls short of including explicit and grotesque images.

The film is grotesque without blood and gore and with only one scene of violence.

Blood and violence, surprisingly, provide dashes of the kind of grisly and grotesque tendencies often scrubbed clean from Anderson's oft - sanitized predecessors.

Tempting and not entirely inaccurate, but in truth The Tuxedo is more than just cheerfully misogynistic (and most of Chan's films are, in one way or another, woman - hating), cartoonish, and even racist in a Green Hornet / Kato sort of way — The Tuxedo is a symptom of a far deeper concern involving the inability of the West to ever make proper use of hijacked foreign commodities or construct an action film anymore that doesn't resort to slapstick childishness and / or grotesque violence.

But somehow, the Danish madman repackaged those elements into something that felt incredibly fresh, with a brace of fine performances (Bryan Cranston and Albert Brooks proving particular highlights), grotesque violence and a fairy - tale romanticism melding with one of the most striking looking and sounding movies of the last few years, one that's set to be ripped off by filmmakers and commercials for years to come.

While the Ryan Reynolds - lead sequel leads the way with a similar formula to its predecessor, it builds on the successes in almost every way for 119 minutes of raunchy laughs and grotesque violence impressively being juxtaposed with an unexpectedly heavy amount of heart.

Harry Crews» novels might sometimes be hard to read because they're filled with violence, blood sport and grotesque characters, but they shout out, «Pick me up and read me,» for they drive us to confront our often grotesque sense of self, the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from harsh truths and the destruction of our society and the world around us under the banner of illusory values.

When not abdicating their responsibility to render judgment on the most vexing games, they cling to rudimentary notions of value, questioning a game's length but not its grotesque sexual violence.

In 2011, she made Happy Song for You in collaboration with Llyn Foulkes, which demonstrates their shared preoccupations, including appropriations of popular culture, the uses of humor and violence, explorations of the grotesque and the uncanny, interactions between images and museum, among many other things.

My intent is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, offering a context for reflecting about the vulnerability of our physical existences.

The oily shine, the wet cream of Hume's surfaces, rippled with road - lines and ridges, the violence of greys, greens and pinks, the ugly in the lovely - Beautiful has a shocking black skull's nose hole - and the slightly grotesque quotation of modern painting prevent these works from ever becoming pretty.

Tamara said: «My intention is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, reflecting the vulnerability of our physical existences.»

These grotesque but compelling works reveal an artist not only interested in universal themes of sex, violence, and creation, but also reveling in the sheer physicality of art - making.

Her exuberant canvases depict grotesque, comic figures in acts of creativity or violence and frequently begin from imaginative premises, as in her «Self Eaters» (2004) or «Tourette's» series (2010).