The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.
Not exact matches
Though Nolan offered some vague thoughts on Alfred and Bruce Wayne's final encounter in Florence, he was slightly more
specific on the mention
of Robin's name at the
end of the
film.
This is a
film that stays with you long after the
end credits have rolled - not for any
specific scene, but because
of the sheer darkness
of it all.
Though these London billboards fail to name one
specific individual at fault (a la the
film's Chief Willoughby), the open
ended nature
of the «How come?»
Demanding a
specific kind
of active spectatorship, Borgman is a complex
film with heat, and somewhere in the middle
of it there's a performance within a performance that
ends with a declaration
of intent that stands as one
of the most existentially chilling things in cinema this year.
She's helped considerably by a fine cast (including the too seldom seen Marie Riviere and Andre Wilms), but in the
end it's Bruni Tedeschi's sure grasp
of the milieu — and in particular her acute understanding
of the
specific foibles
of a rich, arty but out -
of - touch class nostalgic for an earlier era — that makes the
film a modest but surprisingly substantial delight.
Hanks plays a man forced into a terrifying situation and he does the role so much justice, especially in a
specific scene near the
end of the
film, he makes you want to cry.
The knowledgeable Maltin and Alamo expert Frank Thompson lead the track with screen -
specific film historian observations, acknowledging each major contributor and their other work and defending the depictions you might describe as dated, while lamenting the
end of Hollywood's Golden Age.
By its
end, however, the themes that make the
film stand out in the first place don't seem to come with any
specific message attached, which is disappointing, and it suffers from the same obvious potholes regarding parents and police that so many
of its compatriots fall victim to as well.
The usual garden variety studio special features are on hand, including an alternate
ending, eight deleted scenes, and four mini-segments devoted to various aspects
of the
film, including an overview
of the Insidious universe, a glance at The Further, a featurette devoted to Shaye's Elise, and even a small homage to this newly designed demon
specific to this fourth chapter.
It's the
film's universal truths — among them the constant splintering and rebuilding
of familial relations, the open road as an open -
ended metaphor, and the need for continued purpose and relevancy as one grows older — that makes this six - time Oscar nominee (including a Best Picture nod) less a movie involving a
specific state and more a
film evoking a
specific state
of mind.
The latter includes tweets, blurbs, «paid editorial» in reputable newspapers, explicating and celebrating the
film and its mythos, online features speculating on the
film's loose
ends and on where Marvel movies can possibly go next, and fan commentary parsing with Talmudic exactitude the sources
of individual images or moments in the
film, tracing them back to
specific frames in
specific issues
of specific comics.
The
film leads us in an endless loop
of images, objects and tableaux vivants, with no
specific beginning or
end.
London - based artist Mark Lewis distills complex ruminations — on
film as a medium; on the social and economic character
of specific places; on the relationship between observer and observed — into deceptively simple
films that marry Hollywood's high -
end production values to Andy Warhol's dazed gaze.