Skull Face is but a memory, Ground Zeroes» themes and tones are non-existent, and
the only narrative thread that ties chapter two to the rest of Metal Gear Solid V is the formal reveal that Venom was not Big Boss all along.
' themes and tones are non-existent, and
the only narrative thread that ties chapter two to the rest of
Not exact matches
These three stories, related
only by the slenderest of
narrative threads, make up this light - hearted and quite entertaining film set around the city of Tehran.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Within the two hours of hands - on time I had, this overarching
narrative was
only hinted at here and there, but it's clear that something is going to bring all of the disparate
threads together.
Two
narrative threads will unfold throughout the exhibition, circling around the notions of transparency and opacity, and giving vision to Jonas» engagement with the environment and her capacity to not
only desynchronize the gaze upon the Self, but to deconstruct the power structures at the heart of the relationship between individual identity and collective memory.
Objects fuse into one another; the laws of physics are broken; and
only the
threads of a
narrative remain.