Sentences with phrase «sympathetic people in the film»

Now that John and family are the only sympathetic people in the film, let's pour on more syrup on the film with the fact that the public is all on his side as well, including almost all of the hostages.

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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.

As «Little Charles,» he definitely has the narrative's most sympathetic story but more importantly, in a film that is full of despicable people, he manages to pull the audience in to root for him, even when you know he's doing something terribly wrong.

The film hinges on one singular car accident that has a ripple effect in several people's lives, illuminated by three separate stories populated by an array of impressive Mexican actors (including Gael Garcia Bernal), with the the seemingly - contradictory story of a sympathetic hit man being the most moving of the bunch.

Director John Curran also struggles to contain the film's tone as it veers from re-creation of a tragedy to political gamesmanship; there are laughs to be had in watching a team of people try to create a sympathetic version of Ted Kennedy, but with the memory of Mara's Mary Jo Kopechne so vivid, does he really deserve it?

Many are happy to concede the value of films like this set in the developing world, showing sympathetic people trying to retain their dignity while being hungry.

The grainy, poignant experimental films made a couple of people flee, but mostly they found a sympathetic audience of hard - core video lovers and art historians who had arrived in Barcelona for the LOOP Video Fair, opening the next day in Hotel Catalonia Ramblas.