Sentences with phrase «of social commentary»

Both artists utilize language as a form of social commentary, documenting the continuing shifts in the American cultural landscape.

If it has a deeper meaning, some kind of social commentary, or something, that really isn't clear.

The tour guide is totally knowledgeable about the area history and provides a lot of social commentary on the side.

It's fun, hilarious, sharp, and full of social commentary.

The original film had some laughs as well, but not as many as this one (likely due to the extended amount of social commentary).

There's some really intense action, which takes a back seat to myriad points of social commentary and morality.

His back story allows for another type of social commentary, about the gruesome consequences of war.

It has very little to say about its subject matter, and it doesn't seem the least bit interested in providing any sort of social commentary.

While the game doesn't go too far into the deep end of social commentary, there's still a fair bit here.

His mode of social commentary dates back hundreds of years, but his subjects are very often contemporary.

Moving and speaking become a method of social commentary and inquiry, «activating» all of the words that come to the artist's mind during the performance.

The past year, we were also able to witness a fair share of social commentary and humor related to the rise of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

What the cops are up to is big, silly, and full of social commentary, but it's not as fun.

Bradford employs the «tools of civilization» — billboards, merchant posters, newsprint, comics, magazines, and endpapers — to conflate cultural and political forces, and create layers of social commentary in paintings that evoke deep feeling.

But if you're anything like me, you may have detected within the psychedelic lyrics a veiled bit of social commentary aimed at the startup and venture capital economy.

Using bodies in their most abject and raw forms, the great painter orchestrated a highly personal, yet captivatingly universal visual aura with right doses of social commentary on religion, womanhood, and labor.

Paul Weitz has gone from teen farce with AMERICAN PIE to sophisticated and thoughtful slices of social commentary with ABOUT A BOY and IN GOOD COMPANY.

«However, when you realize that these abstract paintings are each modeled after a specific brand of «real world» medication, you see the layers of social commentary present in the work.»

In 1992 The Whitney Museum of Art did a retrospective exhibition on the life works of this great American Contemporary artist and master of social commentary.

Not that I can blame them, as I don't think the story, which has plenty of social commentary about corruption and the effects of globalization on people of lower - to - middle class.

Actor - comedian Chris Rock nailed the opening monologue at the 88th Academy Awards with a skillful mix of social commentary and humour about racism in Hollywood.

This three - disc set boxes up Shoot First, Die Later (1974), a ruthless crime drama starring Luc Merenda as a corrupt cop on a mission of righteous vengeance (previously released as a stand - alone disc), with two disc debuts: Naked Violence (1969), a juvenile delinquent cop drama by way of social commentary, and Kidnap Syndicate (1975), a revenge thriller with Merenda, this time playing an innocent bystander roused to take justice into his own hands.

What made Romero more than a horror director was his focus on horror as a means of social commentary.

This is almost like a lost movie from my teenhood, a forgotten relic of the late 70s, early 80s, when even summer comedies came with a touch of social commentary and a bit of class consciousness — when they ate the rich instead of aspiring to be one of them.

The story is centered on five different families in an Austin high school community, all of whom have some kind of unhealthy relationship with the Internet that Reitman builds on for the sake of social commentary.

Damien Hirst wonders if science is the new religion in a body of work on display at The Lightbox (from March) and Grayson Perry's unique brand of social commentary spills from tapestries, prints and sculptures at Turner Contemporary (from May).

Though his art could easily slip completely into the realm of social commentary, Wiley shies away from any overt message.

America Ferrera dominates the stage in Laura Marks» «Bethany,» a dark comedy of social commentary at Women's Project Theater that poses intriguing questions but never quite convinces.

Is the fact that Eddie applies his brain power almost exclusively to the financial sector, as opposed to, say, curing cancer or ending world hunger, intended as some kind of social commentary by director Neil Burger and writer Leslie Dixon?

More than that, the layer of social commentary makes Night of the Living Dead far more than the Bo - movie schlocker it seems like on the surface.

Underneath all the scantily clad teenagers, is a bold and assured piece of social commentary from Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey - Boy and Mister Lonely).

Weiss writes that Estes» «cityscapes are straightforward in their depiction of surfaces — usually architectural but occasionally organic — and as free of social commentary as one could imagine.

Moments of social commentary are peppered throughout the film, but Ayer never lays it on too thick.

«These are serious works with a lot of social commentary.

I'm a complete sucker for PG Wodehouse, so it would have to be The Code of the Woosters, which has perfect wit, balance, and a sly dash of social commentary.

This idea, of social commentary illuminating an absurd aspect of modern life, is precisely what director George Romero was stating with his pivotal film, Dawn of the Dead.

Journeyman director James McTeigue's better work (V for Vendetta, Sense8) has always maintained an element of social commentary: we sense him lingering when Burke tells Union «You are a woman, alone, at the mercy of strangers», which makes it even more cathartic whenever our resourceful heroine locates a weak spot.

Day - Lewis goes all out and hits the exaggerated level of the social commentary while making it utterly convincing at the same time — much like the film itself.

And if we are going to say you have to ignore the books and review the movies on their own merit, then it's is a valid argument to say that the violence or lack there of and the «dumbing down» of the social commentary doesn't work.

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

The arts and entertainment have always been vessels of social commentary, and to abrogate that responsibility is to resign ourselves to the belief that we, as humans, as fans of fiction, can not live up to the ideals of our heroes... be they Captain America or Errol Flynn.

Not only is this movie all that I have mentioned above, but the entire body of the film is based on a premise of social commentary about a unique form of racism that you will just have to see to believe.

She's also pulled off a neat trick of social commentary with THE WATERMELON WOMAN.

Every bit of social commentary contributes to a greater purpose that Coogler gradually reveals to be the main villain, Erik Killmonger (Coogler's muse Michael B. Jordan).