Sentences with phrase «play as an allegory»

Miller describes him as «a wild animal, trapped», and this could play as allegory in correlation to the many men who feel robbed of their manhood in 2015.

With their crew, they rewrite Shakespeare's play as an allegory for the conditions permeating their daily lives, a spoken word theater piece by and about local youth.

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He also uses imagery and allegory to good effect, such as the reference to playing table tennis on a moving train: The ball may appear to be bouncing back and forth, but in the grand scheme it's really moving only in one direction.

For Christians, sexual difference and union is a type of Christ and the church... Only as allegory can the Song play its central role in healing our sexual imaginations.»

For instance, since «Bush has been remarkably successful in persuading the American people to endorse a simple allegory of good and evil,» Donoghue complains, «it would be difficult, in these lurid circumstances, to read Moby - Dick as anything but a revenge play.»

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

There are allegories in play here, but nothing as potent or easy to sink your teeth into as there was in Isaac's previous collaboration with writer / director Alex Garland, «Ex Machina.»

As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killerAs a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killeras an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).

House of Flying Daggers (its title in Chinese the loaded «Ambush from Ten Directions» — essentially an ambush from everywhere) is at its essence an allegory for rape and the Chinese tradition of concubinage that Zhang has already explored to varying degrees in Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Shanghai Triad, and, of course, Red Sorghum, in which a young woman played by Gong Li (Ziyi's predecessor as Zhang's muse) is saved from rape by a young man with whom she later runs a winery.

Wilson's big and bulky play (reportedly trimmed considerably by Tony Kushner, who gets a co-producer credit) owes much to the family dysfunction classics of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, but it also has notes of heightened allegory that fall flat, such as the recurring character of Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson), Troy's brain - damaged brother who keeps barging into the action to utter deranged prophecies.

The main competition is filled with movies about the ailing world of limited means and unjust distribution of wealth, and after the bizarre and derivative allegory of labor in Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor and Amir Manor's astutely titled Epilogue, which played like Michael Haneke's Amour, only capitalism as a stand - in for death, the main competition now brings us Sylvie Michel - Casey's Our Little Differences.

The play stars Beatrice and Virgil, a donkey and a howler monkey, and Henry comes to see their story as an allegory for the Holocaust.

This riveting allegory, in the tradition of Lord of the Flies, starts as a simple power play within a children's classroom, but turns into a chilling tale about the lust for power and desperate need for acceptance that reside within us all.

Superficially about an American illegal - drug afficionado (played by Michael Cera) on a hallucinogen - sampling trip through Chile, the film works as a terrific allegory about American swagger and hamfisted international relations.

The American artist Ericka Beckman's films and videos focus on games and sport competitions and their rules and structures, featuring the underlying playing fields as an allegory for the development and maintenance of socio - cultural norms.

com2kid: I had similar thoughts about math being stereotyped as anti-creative, but I think Hugh had to pick * something * to play the bad guy in this little story, else his quick and simple allegory would have derailed into a tangled spiral of qualifications and disclaimers.

The artist has created an installation based on childhood recollections of playing on the monkey bars and trips to the zoo that he sees as appropriate allegories for our contemporary political nadir.

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...

Shonibare imagines a dramatized vision of the tragic event of Nelson's death as played out over a series of five photographic allegories based on classic scenes in painting.