Sentences with phrase «present lives of its protagonists»

Navid Danesh's resonant and moving depiction of the impact the past has on the present lives of its protagonists is both culturally specific and universal in its reach.

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I am mesmerized by the art of it,» she reports in the unemotional, sparsely punctuated, and deceptively bland first person present tense that Wang uses throughout the book, as if the protagonist were recording her life as a series of observations in a lab notebook.

Without so much as a line of dialogue on the part of Winstead, Trachtenberg artfully presents the character and her circumstances (including a voice cameo from Bradley Cooper), bringing his protagonist to life out of mere screen direction.

That famous movement's auteurs disdained Freudian psychology (at least at first) and rarely embedded their protagonists in familial contexts; think of Godard, whose characters spring to life in an existential present, with no hint of having had parents, much less grandparents.

This film presents a compelling slice of life whilst interrogating with extraordinary discipline the formal predicates which encase both the film and its protagonist.

The film tells Tonya Harding's life story from the perspective of its main protagonists, Tonya herself in the present day (Margot Robbie), her abusive ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan) and her even more monstrously abusive and confidence sucking, chain - smoking mother, LaVona Golden (Allison Janney).

I won't go into detail on the many colourful characters the film presents, except to say, each and every one of our main protagonists are well written and given enough room to breathe and develop individually, and actors who breathe life into the characters are for the most part, flawless.

The opening moments of Tangerine present an audience with the sort of characters rarely glimpsed in American feature films — and even more rarely as protagonists — but it also lucidly conveys crucial information about its subjects» lives and lifestyles without much exposition.

Mohaiemen seems to be intertwining these two historical moments — the moment of the inception of «bare life» in the camp's state of exception and the present moment of the so - called refugee crisis — so that his protagonist, this specific Muslim man, is able to at once reflect and inflect that terrifying pejorative, der Muselmann.