Sentences with phrase «straightforward tale of revenge»

Refn dares to give genre respect and gravity — this is, at heart, a straightforward tale of revenge — and he injects a strong Oedipal subtext into the film, hinting at the reasons why Julian is unable to resist his mother's orders and silently suffers her brusque insults.

These things play integral parts in throwing the story off course from the straightforward tale of revenge ending in a showdown that Rockwell's Billy Bickle desperately wants it to be, and so the film becomes an odd battle of archetypes battling to push the story's finale towards the ending they think it should have.

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So I guess I'm supposed to tell you that this was the final film appearance for Astaire, Fairbanks, and Douglas (who died before the film was released), and that the film simplified Straub's novel quite a bit, presenting it as a more straightforward supernatural revenge tale and doing away with the race of horrifying mythological shape - shifters that were presented as the main threat in the book.

Sympathy is not a straightforward revenge thriller, its a tale of redemption and distortion and is played out on a grandeur scale.

Yorgos Lanthimos» «The Killing of a Sacred Deer,» on the surface is more straightforward and less surreal than his last film, «The Lobster,» but this chilling revenge tale starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman is deadly in its subtle cruelty.

Jeremy Saulnier makes his long awaited return to the director's chair with his thriller Blue Ruin, a straightforward classic tale of a revenge that takes a simple concept and turns it into pulse - pounding suspense.

At first, it was envisioned as a straightforward revenge tale, but 2K boss Christoph Hartmann wanted Mafia III to compete with Rockstar, one of Hangar 13's sister studios and the company that had been overshadowing Mafia since its inception.