Sentences with phrase «philosophical themes with»

Though Besson is clearly intent on exploring deeper, philosophical themes with «Lucy,» he doesn't seem to know what they are, or at the very least, able to convey them in a manner that doesn't come across as just a bunch of gobbledygook tacked on at the end of a lifeless action thriller.

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Although, according to Grant, what characterizes the God of the gospels is «all - inclusive love,» the theme of love was one that philosophical theologians treated «only with difficulty»; after the New Testament, we encounter «relatively few references to God's love» in the early Christian literature.4 The subject of God's power, however, is an altogether different matter.

With the highly anticipated sequel hitting theaters this weekend, today is pretty much the last day you can reflect on the themes and philosophical implications of 1982's Blade Runner before whatever is going to happen in Blade Runner 2049 completely changes what you think.

The Black Hole is a mixed bag, with some surprisingly interesting philosophical themes that get stripped away shortly after they appear by moments of cloying robot banter and extended laser gun shootouts.

Hiding in a barn out in the desert, he's helped by an unrecognisable Stephen Merchant as Caliban, a sidekick with a name that conjures up all the philosophical portent and themes of nature / nurture that fuse the X-Men mythology with something deeper and more melancholic.

The sort of problem Sontag has with Jameson is, of course, the very argument Bordwell has with anyone from Slavoj Žižek to Jacques Lacan, evident in a comment he makes on his blog (but not in the book) that echoes directly Sontag's: «Most of FRT [Zizek's The Fright of Real Tears] offers standard film criticism, providing impressionistic readings of various [Krzysztof] Kieslowski films in regard to recurring themes, visual motifs, dramatic structures, borrowed philosophical concepts, and the like.»

I don't expect every sci - fi flick to be a thesis on existence sprinkled with sophisticated contemporary philosophical themes.

I write deeply absurd comic fiction with philosophical themes that make people laugh out loud on the train.

Høeg's smash best - seller became The Name of the Rose for the»90s: a demanding, philosophical novel, rich with theme and character, riding the narrative wave of a crime story — in this case, about a troubled, intensely intelligent Greenland woman trying to understand the death of a young boy.

Set in a darkly imagined, underwater Ayn Randian dystopia and rife with deep narrative and philosophical themes, the game went beyond some standard video game tropes.

The BioShock games still command our attention with their weighty themes and ambition to make us think about social issues and philosophical concepts.

It was as basic as the genre could come, with simple turn - based combat, and a story that more served the function of transporting you around towards fantastical places rather than propelling you into conflict with the cardboard - cutout villain, or exploring any social or philosophical themes.

However, where the game differs from the standard fare of the time — and even the RPGs we play today — is how creator Tetsuya Takahashi deftly crafted a multifaceted treatise on life, death, the concept of mind and memory, all the while heavily infused his story with philosophical and religious themes that would make most theology students balk.

The Bioshock games are a rare breed indeed, with both challenging game - play and curious philosophical themes.

After setting the stage with some philosophical analysis of the themes and techniques of Expressionist art, Foster engages his main subject — how «the work of several young artists reflects critically upon the language of Expressionism.»

Indiana was equally drawn to philosophical themes from the writings of American authors such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane, and to the existential aspects of numbers, which he regarded as the basic elements structuring our daily lives, with 1 to 9 representing the spectrum of existence and 0 standing between life and death.