Sentences with phrase «political allegory»

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 killer).

«The Hunger Games» movies have unfolded in a relative blitzkrieg — four movies in four years — and in a fan - fueled fever that has masked some seriously silly political allegory with the thrill of survival games and the awesome star power of Jennifer...

Another book in the same series, King and Kin: Political Allegory in the Hebrew Bible by Joel Rosenburg (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986, 254 pp., $ 10.95) speaks of the interaction between certain texts as political «midrash.»

Critics Consensus: Kinetically directed by Danny Boyle, 28 Days Later is both a terrifying zombie movie and a sharp political allegory.

Part locked - room mystery, part political allegory, Non-Stop is one of the most purely enjoyable entries in the ongoing cycle of Liam Neeson action - thrillers, tempering the star's gruff strongman antics with surveillance - state commentary that's more clever than subversive.

And so is the foundation of this novel: a man turned political allegory edged by Orwellian surrealism.

It's harder to know what to make of the incongruous political allegory the filmmakers intend.

A good zombie movie but also more notably a good political allegory,»28 Days Later» works off its» innovative director, even if it is not as quick paced as one might hope from a zombie flick.

The extravagant makeup and special effects are actually unobtrusive because they're demanded by the pleasantly formulaic story, whose conflicts — and broad, innocuous political allegory — justify the heartwarming resolution.

Looking and behaving like a Sci - Fi Channel original production, this sequel to the remake has a clueless National Guard unit sent to The Desert (political allegory alert!)

Painted on a larger canvas, The Bourne Ultimatum poses itself as an unavoidable political allegory (what with Greengrass fresh off the triumph of United 93), lending a lot of weight to its portrait of a completely broken world where one wrong word spoken on an open line can bring the whole weight of a rogue National Security Agency down on them like a concrete gargoyle.

Wood Jr. has some interesting theories about the deeper meanings hidden within some of these films — especially Get Out, which he's pretty sure is actually a very specific political allegory.

Put both of these films together and you'd have a pretty watchable political allegory

Alexsey German's 15 - years - in - the - making political allegory is a visceral, sensory, jaw - dropping masterpiece.

The story of a fragile community stranded in the desert by a fear - mongering charlatan could have been settled for facile political allegory, yet Reichardt is after something more uncanny and mysterious.

Despite its action and revelations, its substantial political allegory and its strong performances from a tremendous cast, «The Hunger Games: Mockingkay — Part 1» still feels like one long -LSB-...]

The novels are not your typical YA fare, though there is a love triangle between preposterously - named heroine Katniss Everdeen and two troubled beaus - brooding activist Gale and misunderstood baker's son Peeta - but «Games» has some real darkness, science fiction, and political allegory at its heart.

In case you don't figure out that this story is meant as timely political allegory, there are bill - boarded hints along the way, the most obvious including Kemp holding forth on Nixon's legacy and the despoliation of Paradise.

Directed by Robert Wise, with a Nelson Gidding - credited screenplay based on a novel by suspense and crime specialist William McGivern («The Big Heat»), «Odds Against Tomorrow» boasts a riveting and exciting story, unforgettable characters and a bitingly contemporary social / political allegory plot.

At its best, the subgenre's most familiar elements set the stage for an ideal star vehicle and a readymade political allegory.

There is some kind of irresponsible, biased political allegory within the subtext, but I don't want to waste any more time on this movie and figure it out.

The endless action climax includes a falling - skyscraper scene that casually plunders 9/11 for visual references (floating scraps of paper, falling office chairs) without paying the obligatory tax of pathos or political allegory such scenes usually demand.

-RRB- or was so clearly left - wing proselytizing that it jettisoned context and energy in favour of bland political allegory -LRB-

Three years after Russia's preeminent contemporary auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev scored a nomination for his muscular political allegory «Leviathan,» he returns to the race with «Loveless,» a similarly sprawling, sobering study of social and familial dysfunction in his country.

Audio: «Can be seen as a contemporary political allegory about truth and paranoia» — Karen Gordon, CBC

Snowpiercer alternates between sudden violence, high camp, and heavy - handed political allegory with breakneck speed, and even when its disjoined plot mechanics seem a little too convenient, it's brimming with new cinematic technique.

As an adult, he says, he rediscovered the story only to find that it was not a fantasy adventure so much as a satirically charged political allegory about the «author's» home country of Florin (I know it's fictional now, okay?)

- Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth - century political allegories.

His works range from huge to miniature and from political allegories to drawings documenting his dreams.

Documentaries are the least of it — far more common are political allegories pretending to be entertainment.

Critic Consensus: Kinetically directed by Danny Boyle, 28 Days Later is both a terrifying zombie movie and a sharp political allegory.

Ice Cream's story, related in patois, is a richly detailed dystopian epic that blends elements of American history, popular culture, and political allegory with romance and thriller pacing.

Genesis is a commentary of sorts on the Davidic history in II Samuel, a political allegory.

He tells the story of the soul by means of a political allegory, wherein the elements of the spiritual constitution are mapped onto elements of society.

Much of Brooks's political allegory and satire is missing from the film as well, though I'm not sure how of much that we realistically could have hoped to see in a mega-budget studio release.

Smartphone apps don't particularly lend themselves well to political allegory or satire.

Pan's Labyrinth is a gothic fantasy that sees a young girl escape into a world of fauns, fairys and political allegory to escape her cold, cruel, clockwatching, jack - booted step - father who is a kindred spirit of Schindler's List's Goethe.

Although the «Hunger Games» movies haven't lived up to their potential as political allegory, the «Divergent» series hardly bothers with such ideas.

I can't make any great claims for Keith Gordon's fourth feature as a director — a tragic love story that might be described as a political allegory, limited by the affective range of its lead actor (Billy Crudup), who plays a smarmy politician, and by the smudgy articulation of some secondary details.

In the case of Pacific Rim, apparently not much as director Guillermo del Toro seems determined to make sure the film does not to come across seriously, which is disappointing considering del Toro's background making both dark fantasy films with political allegories and creative comic book adaptations.

Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.

Since then it has been called everything from misogynistic to a political allegory.

After all, the only people I know who enjoyed The Village are those who presumed Shyamalan's intention was as political allegory.

Elaborate action sequences, cool gadgets, new characters, political allegory, social commentary, twists, turns, and a whole lot more.