Sentences with word «surreality»

They often do, but in this case Fake News published by dishonest and corrupt media has protected the lingering surreality of climate alarmism.

The stories that punctuate Antonioni's film are placed within a context of surreality in a way that creates a sense of displacement.

Forster and his collaborators deserve credit for plunging us into the thick of things: the Lanes learn that society is collapsing when a seemingly ordinary urban traffic jam is jolted into surreality by an explosion, a stampede of terrified civilians and their vehicles, and a furious attack by people who've been infected by a virus that turns them into ravenous ghouls.

This brilliant slice of comic surreality from Adam McKay skewers modern American masculinity.

This strategy creates something of a «Déjà Vu effect» that is driven by drama and surreality with traces of levity.

While that sporting surreality was probably predictable, the political developments of the last few months have been anything but, and Blunkett believes «they all feed into a feeling that nothing will quite be the same again».

As the subject under discussion moved on to phone hacking and relations between the media and politicians, the sense of surreality grew.

The production design of the shimmer has invited several comparisons to Tarkovsky's Stalker, a film whose influence on production design has most recently manifested in the most unexpected of places — dystopian YA adaptations ranging from Mockingjay to The Maze Runner, which have taken the otherworldly designs of «The Zone» and stripped them of their initial surreality.

Additional notes of Almodovarian surreality, like a scene of Marina trudging through strong headwinds or another of her performing with a glittery troupe of backup dancers, are as unfortunate as the on - the - nose needle - drop of Aretha Franklin's «(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman» and the heavy - handed spite of Marina's interlocutors.

Mostly though, it's a triumph of control over its deliciously black, deadpan - ironic tone, the kind of unholy, pristine surreality that might result if Michael Haneke and Ben Wheatley got locked in the «Dogtooth» house.

Whatever, dude: As long as season two — officially subtitled Atlanta Robbin» Season — contains at least a modicum of season one's woozy surreality, or continues to provide weekly spotlights for Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield, and Zazie Beetz to show why they're one of the finest casts on TV, we're in.

One day he hears the stentorian, patrician voice of his own personal narrator, reclusive author Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), providing him an interiority with Douglas Adams - like serendipitous surreality.

Surreality helps you to not only take in and observe reality, but also not turn off your receptibility to it.

And yet even amidst the new surrealities of the Black Lodge (the Arm is now a tree with a brain!?)

Debuting feature director Rupert Goold at first seems on a path of intriguing surreality, staging his verbal mano a mano in a spotless jail that feels more like an abstract state of mind.

Kelly's film creates a sustained mood of dreamy portent, full of Lynchian surreality, eerily calm silences, and some of the best use of gloomy new - wave ever committed to celluloid.

It's pretty much what you'd get if you took a Wes Anderson film and stripped it of the slight pretentiousness and half the random surreality.

Opening with a well photographed dream sequence that sets a tone of imbalance, the Guard Brothers demonstrate a knack for stylish surreality (blood seeping out of keyholes or magically replacing spilt milk) and shock sequences (as when a writhing mass of limbs crawls out of the shadows of Anna's room).

Another thing that separates something great like John Wick from something like Kingsman is that the action sequences in Kingsman, while undeniably kinetic and occasionally fun, are computer - engineered into a peculiar surreality.

If you grew up in Rockwell's American utopia, you could probably argue that The Sandlot evokes something of the halcyon surreality of the cult of childhood, but it's such a dedicatedly grating pre-pubescent scream-fest that it's always a heartbeat away from deserving to be shut off and sealed in a yellow barrel.

Ben, how do you feel about Mulholland Drive's dreamy L.A. surreality?

Indeed, funny art comes so loaded with piercing ironies, sudden surrealities, and deadpan expressions of horror or grief that we can not be sure if it is even okay to laugh.

Breton believed in the future resolution of dream and reality into surreality, the reality he regarded as absolute.

Exceed people's expectations by adding some surreality.

In its surreality, it recalls the case of Arnold Friedman of Great Neck, New York.

Maybe the surreality will never go away.

«The reality, or surreality, of it all is just completely emotionally overwhelming.

The green is like a young guy who has decided to join the military and embrace combat; while the flowery part is kind of the same guy just in a post-dobbie moments of surreality.

It's a perfect example of The Room's surreality, the kind of dialogue audiences have howled at in the popular midnight screenings that have helped cement The Room's status as a so - bad - it's - good cult masterpiece.

Annihilation touches on many issues, saying something about life and death, hope and hopelessness, reality and surreality.

He kept it on «that fine line between comedy and tragedy, reality and surreality,» said KeepGrinning.

The first is the giallo, films indicated by their impossibly convoluted mystery plots and elaborate set - piece murders; the second, of which Suspiria is one, is the «supernatural,» distinguished by their surreality and lack of a traditional narrative.

The director, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, is a veteran of Studio Ghibli and much of the pleasure comes from the contrast between the surreality of anime (flying dolphins, a flower that confers magical abilities, a...

As 2017 draws to an end, we find ourselves trapped in a daily cycle of surreality — up is down, black is white, and norms that once seemed to be universally accepted have been tossed out the window.

Two of the best films of the last year, S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk and John Maclean's Slow West, took the period and setting but twisted them to their own means, Zahler going for a buddy road trip / gonzo gore feast and Maclean dressing Ben Mendlesohn in the best coat anyone will ever wear and opting for a surreality that still lingers in the mind.

Of course, what Key and Peele are trying to do is amplify their humor by playing with elements of suspense; what 10 Cloverfield Lane does is amplify its suspense by playing with humor and surreality.

The story recalls the surreality of David Lynch and Leos Carax, especially the latter's Holy Motors, which has a common actress in Eva Mendes.

In Lorca's oeuvre, Arvio claims to «hear two voices and see two landscapes»: one is Lorca's popular New York poems, full of alienation, surreality and political vigor; the other voice, and the one this volume focuses on, constitutes his «moonlit earthbound Spanish poems.»

The games that make me hungry for more are those that envelope the environment in such a way that your mentality shifts out of reality and into surreality.

PaRappa got there first and is the more approachable of the two, but Gitaroo Man is a joyous celebration of music, fashion and surreality.

With the resurgence of many of those franchises (as well as Tim Schaefer trying to relive the days when he did something other than design failed business plans and games that sound better on paper,) Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick reunited again to bring us a perfectly encapsulated blast of old - school gaming, a pixelated wedge of surreality that brings back the days when puzzles were kind of obtuse and games were dialogue - heavy, and none of that was in any way a bad thing.

Lieko Shiga — whose work is featured in the exhibition Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now — makes mysterious and emotionally charged photographs that evoke the surreality of dreams.

His artworks depict stereotypical people of everyday life in the realm of surreality.

Lurid color bathes her work and heightens the surreality of her subjects while the grain and grit of the photographs make them palpably real.