Sentences with phrase «redemption narrative»

Following FX's American Crime Story: The People Versus OJ Simpson, wherein the much - maligned prosecutor Marcia Clark got her due, many have felt that I, Tonya replicates that redemption narrative for Harding, exposing her tough childhood and abusive relationship that took place alongside the infamous crowbar to Nancy Kerrigan heard around the world.

A familiar late - in - life redemption narrative, made surprisingly palatable by Pacino's winning comic bravado, a superb supporting cast, and currents of real feeling that cut through the expected bromides about the emptiness of fortune and fame.

The film is very smart, most of all because it resists the urge to devolve into a sentimental redemption narrative.

If there's not much substance to Doctor Strange's standard redemption narrative, though, there's much to be said for its surface.

The logic of the redemption narrative predicts that when Musk says that he plans to convert the world to solar power and establish a colony on Mars, he's entirely sincere, as crazy as he might sound.

In a redemption narrative, the will to succeed in business is perfectly compatible with a desire to change the world.

He'll disappear for a few months to a few years, then reappear on the scene and say all the things that make it look like he's a fantastic instance of a redemption narrative and ready to get back into the spotlight and hold the reins of power.

Last year's monumental celebration saw black filmmakers and actors propelled to the forefront as Hollywood began a redemption narrative against #OscarsSoWhite.

The movie turns out to be something we've seen before: an underdog tale mixed with a redemption narrative.

Shortly after his assault, a tragedy befalls him (still, no spoilers), and this is how the fourth act of the film begins: building a redemption narrative for the disgraced cop.

, becoming a rolling stone of oppression that threatens to overrun the redemption narrative and everything else of interest.

These scenes and moments dominate the spirit and tone of Birdman, becoming a rolling stone of oppression that threatens to overrun the redemption narrative and everything else of interest.

Its redemption narrative is based not on trying to salvage what might not be worth saving, but of growing and moving on.