Arms races happen when easily predictable gains along a single axis suck intelligent well - meaning people
toward inevitable conclusions that they are unable to avoid despite their clear visibility.
Amour builds
toward an inevitable conclusion, and when it gets there, Haneke delivers it quietly, without comment, but to great effect.
Still, the film «isn't elegiac or fatalistic, nor is it a dread - filled slog
toward an inevitable conclusion.
Not exact matches
Writer - director Power takes the traditional set - up of young people in peril in the woods and tinkers with the narrative, building every so deliberately
toward an
inevitable, unsettling
conclusion.
It's that kind of inherent tension that «Beirut» could stand to mine, as the back half of the film speeds
toward a
conclusion that's both unearned and
inevitable.
The Yes Men's brilliant lies unlock explosive satirical truths, but the film runs out of steam a bit
toward the end, as the duo decides to take its project to an
inevitable conclusion by pretending to disband the WTO, ostensibly for humanitarian reasons.
The challenge for screenwriter Pete Chiarelli and director Anne Fletcher is to fill a formulaic story with enough incidents and character details to amuse us as the film makes its way
toward the
inevitable clinch -
conclusion... and they do.