Sentences with phrase «powerful scene where»

There is an incredibly powerful scene where Solomon lashes out at a female slave for openly weeping after her children are taken from her.

The script also carefully addresses King's affairs in a powerful scene where Coretta Scott King (played wonderfully by Carmen Ejogo) demands the truth.

Not exact matches

This musical teems with moments of transcendence — where a powerful scene occurs on stage, and the atmosphere in the theatre changes.

So formidable is Sister Aloysius, the principal of the St. Nicholas Church School, whom the kids, her Catholic subordinates, fear, as evidenced by an early scene where the abbess» voice, like an electric charge, jolts the slumbering parishioners into a comically exaggerated alertness during Father Flynn's sermon, that we believe this woman, this nun, is all - powerful.

In fact, the film's most powerful moments occur when other characters show empathy toward the boy — most notably in a scene where he is caught trying to dine - and - dash, and his fate is decided by a waitress.

After a couple of brief but powerful action scenes and a long section where Louie and two pals, tail gunner Mac (Finn Wittrock) and pilot Phil (Domhnall Gleeson), are lost at sea (the movie's best bit, but more on that later), we're left with a long last section; a prison camp pic where our hero is locked into a battle of wills with Watanabe (Japanese pop star Miyavi aka Takamasa Ishihara).

And yet, despite the movie's embrace of pain and fear — exemplified by a scene where Thor lists all the loved ones he's lost, and appears to be battling PTSD like Tony — it almost never feels as special or as powerful as it ought to.

Particularly powerful is the silent scene where a piece of paper stuck in May's wall of woe is unfolded to reveal a prayer for the four little girls blown up in a Birmingham church by the Ku Klux Klan.

One scene where her father tries to give her an aid to help her hearing, a vain hope that she can no longer put up with, is outstandingly powerful, as both Krasinski and Simmonds act their socks out without a single word.

Stone is superb, capturing King's natural athleticism and sexual confusion, ultimately resulting in an enormously powerful and touching performance, particularly in a scene where she is left alone in the locker room and lets all the emotion of a hard - fought match come pouring out.

In a terrible scene where Black families are showcased like cattle, based on their strength and health before being sold into slavery, Paul Giamatti makes a brief but immensely powerful impression as a slaver trader, who has no qualms about pulling families apart.

When it comes to sex, he has a powerful imagination, which we observe in an early scene where shipmates make a sand sculpture of a naked woman, and he uses it like a love doll to masturbate.

Davis is quite powerful in those few scenes where Rose is allowed to break free from the character's wary vigilance — where she pours out her hurt — but the scenes often play out as arias in an opera that never quite rises to full cry.