Sentences with phrase «social satire into»

May 20, 2018 • In his first solo album in six years, Cooder injects social satire into his refurbished work of traditional American gospel music.

«Get Out» injects social satire into the slasher - flick genre; Peter Travers on why Jordan Peele's race - relations horror film is an instant classic.

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When satire did not work, the next week November 11, 2015, I returned to explicit economic advisory in «Reversing Economic Slowdown» where I noted that «I have been loud in warning about the dangers of allowing the economy slide into recession and the imperative of policy to prevent that eventuality, on social media, in my Businessday column and in discussions on Channels Television and CNBC Africa, but the sense I get is that many are yet in denial about the reality of our economic conditions».

That set - up never blossoms into the pungent satire it wants to be, however, because the black hats and white hats have been so obviously delineated that any social commentary becomes utterly blunted.

What clinched the verdict was the social satire subtly packaged into the story: It is a black man who moves in with his girlfriend's mysterious family, and it is race that drives an apparent disparity of power between him and the white family.

This fainthearted bid at social satire stars Nicolas Cage as a middle - aged man gazing into the yawning void of his life.

Peele manages genuinely fearful thrills but also injects some humour into the proceedings where it also works as a fearless social satire.

It was once star Colin Farrell escaped into the woods and lived with the loners that the movie revealed the full swing of its social satire.

While it opens with the promise of a modern take on the 1983 comedic classic Trading Places — which featured some truly biting racial and social satire — Get Hard rapidly devolves into nothing more than a sorry excuse to trot out the stereotypes it purports to subvert.

The title of Jordan Peele's film — which begins as social satire and evolves, in this scene, into nightmarish terror — references what audiences should be shouting at Chris by now.

As other weaker films picked up prizes, notably Olivier Assayas» Personal Shopper and Andrea Arnold's American Honey, many were struck, if not shocked, by the hot tips that were forgotten, notably Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson and even the last day's black - comedy crime cum social satire, Elle, by Paul Verhoeven, which turned into a perfectly boisterous way to conclude a selection that, inevitably, contained principally grim fare.

Elsa Hansen Oldham's embroidered works draw upon traditional craft and decorative art to present her subversive works that dip into satire to heighten the social commentary.