Sentences with phrase «shady character motivations»

The third act is a labyrinth of past transgressions coming to light and shady character motivations, but co - writer / director Ben Affleck, in his directorial debut, somehow manages to let the heart of Lehane's theme rise out of the murky plotting and allows the moral ambiguity of its characters and scenario to have an impact.

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Film noir flourished during the decades either side of the second world war, populated by shady characters operating in a grey moral world under their own rules and motivations, all with an impending sense of doom colouring their every actions.
We don't know much about the plot other than it's about a group of shady characters with mysterious motivations who violently come into conflict, but if Goddard is excited enough about this project to write and direct it, we're sure as hell excited enough to watch it.
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