Sentences with phrase «voiceover narration tells»

Braff's voiceover narration tells a story (one we will hear twice more over the course of the film, as if repetition can substitute for actual connection) about Aidan and his brother pretending to be superheroes as children, and realizing that maybe they weren't heroes: maybe they were just regular guys.

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In the course of his research, Lipman finds unexpected visual and thematic rhymes between past and present, cutting together archival clips and present - day interviews with a musician's sense of rhythm, often letting his voiceover narration drop out of the mix as the images and sounds tell their own story.

10,000 BC embroiders the classic coming - of - age, boy - with - a-heroic-destiny legends and lore told around camp fires for millennia with straight - faced, pretentiously sober spirituality, made - up mysticism and reams of voiceover narration (from Omar Sharif).

Tesla at war with Edison's gang of hired goons in a wintry Overlook wonderland is a wondrous fantasia; a story told through twin diaries and a voiceover narration by consummate artist Caine shouldn't work as well as it does (and yet doesn't quite work as well as it might).

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

That willful self - deception is beautifully summed up by a single sequence in which Harley, in rare voiceover narration, sighs about the worlds Ilya opened up for her, and about how there was «an elegance» to him, while the pictures tell the story of two lank - haired dullards stealing bottles of 5 - Hour Energy from drugstores to fence to kiosk vendors.