Sentences with phrase «ostensible plot»
It has the lighthearted ostensible plot of a very basic anime dating sim.
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The ostensible plot has Shanté suspecting her boyfriend Keith Fenton (Morris Chestnut) of cheating, and the remainder of the film has her outlining to the audience her allegedly foolproof ten - day plan, which entails lying and all sorts of psychological manipulation, to get any man in gear.
That's the ostensible plot, but it is merely a skeleton on which hangs the true flesh of the story — an abundance of themes, images, ideas that ensure a personal reaction from each viewer.
Park Chan - wook's English - language debut has an ostensible plot: something Gothic and overheated about incest, secrets, and its young protagonist's coming of age.
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The characters of Comrade Detective voice the propaganda of communist superiority, but they know — as the ostensible 1980s audience would have — that it's not really true, and this reality drives the plot.
Openly accusing an ostensible ally of plotting against you is hardly prime ministerial behaviour.
In Rules Don't Apply, Beatty steals every scene — but there isn't much to take away from a movie whose ostensible main plot line of sexually frustrated youth is enacted with such lack of interest from its key players.