Sentences with phrase «passages as allegory»

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Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

While perhaps cliched, the entire opening passage of The Eighteenth Brumaire, with its almost campy imagery of republicans festooned in the trappings of imperial Rome, might have a useful afterlife today as an allegory for contemporary art.