Sentences with phrase «takes narrative twists»

Not exact matches

The final twists pack a nice jolt, but I couldn't take them seriously: They remind me of nothing so much as a silly narrative stunt from «Days of Our Lives» circa 2003 — which makes sense, considering the MCU has become Hollywood's most endlessly renewable big - screen soap opera.

Her pitch - perfect performance is vital to a narrative that twists and turns and takes you down paths that look familiar, even when it's pitch black, even when you're lost.

Like Lanthimos, Warmerdam tempers the inherently twisted narrative with a flat, static visual style of medium and long shots, long takes, natural lighting, and minimal camera movement.

With twisting perspectives and a shocking narrative, Unsane asks questions about our perception of reality, our survival instinct and the system that is supposed to take care of us.

The prospect of Steven Spielberg doing an Abraham Lincoln biopic threatens a return to the earnest «give us free» slave narrative of Amistad, but the brilliance of Lincoln comes from how much weight it gives to the horse - trading and arm - twisting it takes to achieve political goals.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

Its twisting narrative of family mysteries, haunted Scottish manor houses, and the legacy of ancient Druidic rituals combine successfully to create an effective take on classic Gothic.

With his 2004 debut, Primer, Shane Carruth challenged the long - held conventions of the sci - fi genre, taking the traditional time - travel narrative and twisting it into a dense examination of human relationships.

While the narrative takes on a decidedly slow build toward its multiple twist ending, Brookmyre keeps things interesting by mixing up his narrators from chapter to chapter.

Taking a slightly different tack, New York Times best - selling author Jean Thompson uses an easily digestible narrative style to twist classic fairy tales into more recognizable shapes in her new collection, The Witch: And Other Tales Re-Told.

I left my preview build feeling very positive on the experience; the twisting rogue - like narrative played in well with the tactical combat to provide some interesting angles the story could take.

There are several times within the game that the story would never stay consistent, and even in the end when the narrative took a twist, it made no sense.

The narrative introduces intriguing twists right from the very beginning, and the unfolding connections between Team Skull, the Aether Foundation, and mysterious Ultra Beasts take the story in unexpected, dark directions.

Quantic Dream have taken everything Heavy Rain put on the table and refined it to perfection, creating a deep and engrossing narrative that twists and turns its way to a satisfying conclusion.

Since Monaco's narrative is told mostly told through scrolling text boxes and, besides a few interesting plot twists, isn't particularly robust, you probably won't feel inclined to put in the considerable time and effort it takes to unlock the extra campaigns unless you're really interested in the extra challenge.