Sentences with phrase «redemptive arc»
His character has a full redemptive arc, transitioning from bully - jerk to exalted hero, which gives him a wide range from which to pull.
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It's intentionally messy, and I think some parts have been misinterpreted (for example, I don't think there's a redemptive arc for Dixon (Sam Rockwell) or anyone in the movie; it's about the impossibility of justice and the necessity of grace), which can be chalked up to weak screenwriting and clumsy direction.
(People who didn't dig Sam Rockwell's redemptive arc in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will not like this at all.)
The film plays like an assured American comedy with its quick - fire pacing and conventional, redemptive arc.
And despite a familiar redemptive arc commencing, it's not The Fighter either....
It doesn't take an epiphany or a cloying redemptive arc to get him to do what's right.
Jackman is egregiously awful, playing the father who abandoned his son a decade before as a complete asshole so there can be a redemptive arc.
Not exact matches
God's redemptive movement, the slow and steady arc towards justice.
On the other hand, because we are — in ways often hidden from our eyes — «preparing the way of the Lord,» the routine, often exhausting, seemingly mundane donkey - fetching details of our service are gathered into the great arc of Jesus» redemptive work in the world.
But curb the sighs in regards to a redemptive and predictable «smartass students teach the smartass teacher» arc...
And at the same time, it came in for heavy criticism of its sloppy racial politics and what some people saw as a «redemptive» arc for a racist cop.
Not everyone read Dixon's arc as redemptive.
But what is certain about Three Billboards is that if this many people saw Dixon's arc as redemptive — and if we take the most charitable view, that it wasn't intended to trivialize the experiences of abused and tortured black characters in order to humanize a white character — then the problem is in the film itself, which allowed room for a reading that was counter to its intentions.