Sentences with phrase «sympathetic character in the film»

She's little more than a spoilt brat who treats everyone around her with contempt, even her loving father, Considine, the only remotely sympathetic character in the film.

His steely stare is tempered by his innate and constant desire to do good, and his lonely, well meaning detective is by far the most sympathetic character in the film, despite going through the least emotional and psychological turmoil.

Not exact matches

The film's most memorable moments belong to Streep's sometimes awkwardly sympathetic character as she enters yet another boardroom populated by men or, later in the story, when she emerges from the Supreme Court to find a sea of upturned faces of young women there to cheer her on.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

Even science fiction intrudes in the ruminations of a computer in a sympathetic cop's patrol car; these musings stand in, perhaps, for the missing Gorin character, but disrupt the film's tone.

There are some telling moments when they discuss material that was excised from the final cut, such as scenes that might have made other characters in the film more sympathetic, but unfortunately none of this footage has been preserved on this disc.

The heart of the film is the sympathetic characterization by Jordan, who makes Oscar a decent, sincere character, trying to do the right thing having gotten so much wrong in the past (the film's only real flashback is to him in prison being given the tough love treatment by his mother).

The characters are very sympathetic, the performances are first rate (especially Bridges), and it has one of the most perfect scores in recent science fiction film history.

I haven't always been enamored of Hugh Grant's films, or of Drew Barrymore's for that matter, but they both seem to excel at playing sympathetic characters desperately looking for love and success, In Music and Lyrics, both of them ingratiate themselves sufficiently that we like them in their roleIn Music and Lyrics, both of them ingratiate themselves sufficiently that we like them in their rolein their roles.

Much of the film's novelty derives from its characters, the sort one almost never finds in «commercial» films — both flawed and sympathetic — and it keeps them vivid, ambiguous, and three - dimensional throughout.

For the most part he is a highly sympathetic, identifiable and likeable character to spend the film in the company of.

The audacious film conveys a raw authenticity for its characters and setting, while newcomer Dickinson finds depth and complexity in a protagonist whose sympathetic qualities are sometimes elusive.

Writer - director Oliver lets sentimentality graze the film graze once — and it's a film about sympathetic mental patients reintegrating so it's amazing he was able to get away with a sidewalk picnic without sentimentality — but the realities of the characters quickly reign in any loose tender particles.

«Random Hearts» is the only film I can recall where a Republican politician was treated as a sympathetic character in a Hollywood film.

The film runs at a very Bollywood - lean 104 minutes, and while this is in many ways a good thing, the film could have used more screen time to properly cap off that concern, which as it stands is more or less tied up by a less than satisfying voiceover, which prevents Sameer from ever truly redeeming himself as any sort of sympathetic character.

At times, he genuinely seems sympathetic, mainly because we spend more time with him than most other characters in the film.