Sentences with phrase «symbols than real people»

Released just two years after his critically acclaimed «The Tree of Life,» Malick introduces us to the main characters immediately but they feel more like symbols than real people and we never really get to know and understand the «why» of their actions.

The Italian speaking American, Jack, now poses as a photographer and calls himself Edward, as he meets two friendly characters in the Italian village who seem more like symbols than real people: a kindly Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) who once sired a bastard child and believes the Americano is a sinner worth saving and a local prostitute from the bordello with a heart of gold named Clara (Violante Placido).

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Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.