Nevertheless, they do add a sense of the human suffering going on and emphasize
the real message of the film: The power of the one to stand against the many.
Not exact matches
We recently sat down with the band and the
film's director to talk about what it was like making the
film, how it came about and what the
real message of Hillsong United is.
There have been some claims by the Monkees since the
film came out that this
message was projected onto it by Rafelson and Nicholson, but the script was clearly born
of a very
real frustration with their image.
There's so much to appreciate in that
film — from its portrayal
of a kickass female lead character who just so happens to have a physical disability (though is never depicted as being a person who matters less because
of it) to its impressive number
of real - time stunts and action sequences to its feminist
message.
But the
film's
real message comes through in moments
of silence: in the long rides between homes, in the contained grief
of the bereaved or just several beers past debate.
My assumption that it would be a rather routine animated family
film, featuring pop culture references, celebrities instead
of real voice actors, fart jokes, and an innocuous
message, was pretty much accurate.
Not only does the
film open with the
real video
of Oscar's shooting, shot on a mobile phone by a fellow train passenger, but throughout the
film we see Oscar's text
messages pop up on screen.
To those that aren't inclined to like a movie like this, never really enjoying
filmed plays, musicals, or
films with overt
messages that come across like heavy - handed Public Service Announcements more than
real stories about
real people, you'll probably want to avoid this, as the music not only is unrelenting, it is the sole source
of conversation among characters for most scenes.
That it stuck to its guns as an offbeat arthouse fantasy
message film without becoming cartoonishly absurd was the thing I most admired about it even though, at the same time, that was what made it so tiresome and disingenuous and left me feeling this was more about Hollywood's bogus take on reality than an actual depiction
of real - life.
Just like Sony's handling
of Heaven is For
Real, this project is less Christian than most
films of the genre, and chooses to be «spiritual» instead, glossing over much
of the Christian
message.
A lot
of animated kids»
films fall into the trap
of using ridiculous plot contrivances just to shore up a simplistic
message — but Frozen has the courage to be a bit more messy, so that by the time you get to an ending that does bring everything together, it feels less like a final plot hammer descending and more like a
real resolution.
Issues surrounding the
real - life 1970 plane crash that killed most
of the Marshall University football team are explored in only the most cliched manner in this disappointing
film, which is filled with even more overwrought dialogue and simplistic
messages than the typical sports
film.
It's a play for the high and the low, in other words, a movie where a pissing dog is the only character that grows as a person — where the final
message of the
film are the shockers that there's a difference between men and gods and that
real decisions can't actually be made without God (contradicting the picture's God directly, as it happens).
The army actually causes most
of the destruction - part
of the
film's ham - handed
message about who the
real monster is - and frankly, we've seen that kind
of thing in too many better movies.
I found her to be a 2 dimensional creation to be honest and as for the
film overall Im fighting to find any sort
of message or
real point to any
of it.
That doesn't change my belief that this movie is stuck in the gray area between romantic drama and comedy, and because
of it, comes across as just a lightweight
film with no
real message or emotion.
The good thing about the Mad Bastards
film, he said, was its positive
messages: «A lot
of Indigenous
films can leave you depressed, this one had a
message of hope, a
message of culture, it stayed really
real.»
«A lot
of Indigenous
films can leave you depressed, this one had a
message of hope, a
message of culture, it stayed really
real.»