Sentences with phrase «subplots of love stories»

The book includes subplots of love stories and conspiracies, along with interludes of a peasant life marked by a spiritual wisdom and uncomplicated human decency that the sophisticated have discarded with contempt.

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With complicated subplots of friendship, love and family, the drama tells an inspiring story of the youth struggling for success.

The non-Rhode Island portion of the film that introduces a sociopathic albino, a profoundly implausible love story and subplot involving a country club (that's not «sub» enough) is wrought with pleas for laughter.

Lame subplots involving Bobby's sister (Sari Lennick) and gangster brother (Corey Stoll) only get in the way of the more interesting love story, which benefits from Eisenberg and Stewart's excellent chemistry.

This action - driven detour comes out of nowhere and does not comfortably mesh with Victor's story, even if the science teacher utters a line to explain this fanciful subplot and even if the whole movie is love letter to Burton's influences.

The story begins to struggle as Valjean takes a backseat to accommodate the rise of subplots that involve love triangles and a French uprising that takes all the focus for a good chunk of time but lacks the emotion pull of Valjean's tale.

It's one thing to be about love, and entirely another to be one not just about romantic love, but all types of love — also love between friends, within a family (as illustrated in a subplot involving Naina's bickering mother and grandmother, which nicely supports the main story), and its power to inspire people to act beyond themselves.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

For most superhero movies, the love story is usually nothing more than a subplot or something to add emotional stakes, but in Wonder Woman, it's key to the growth of both characters.

If they do, they end up sugar coating the truth or adding in some sort of love story or fictitious subplot to lighten the tone.

There is no romantic subplot, but a maturely handled love triangle at the core of the story.