Sentences with phrase «with biblical allegories»

Reeves is at the top of his game as a director, imbuing this film with Biblical allegories and exploring grounded, relatable emotions through an unlikely group of protagonists.

Not exact matches

With the emergence of historical criticism as the dominant form of biblical interpretation, allegory was discredited as a feckless style of medieval exegesis that twisted the words and phrases of Scripture into arbitrary symbols of hidden truths.

Trigger - happy soldiers shoot Klaatu and whisk him away to a government facility from which he subsequently escapes and disappears into the city, blending in with common Earthlings and eventually taking up residence in the home of single mom Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) under the assumed name, Mr. Carpenter, (to reinforce the allegory lest anyone missed the biblical overtones).

As with Aronofsky's insane biblical allegory, we're really not sure who this movie is meant to be for.

It's dark and violent, sure, but it's also laced through with black humor, Biblical allegory, and even a slight a fairy tale feel.

There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.

is an overt Biblical allegory that proudly eschews any sort of recognisable reality, taking place in a single location with the outside world either an illusion or an unknowable mystery.

A decade after the release of his award - winning Adam's Apples, Men & Chicken arrives to remind us of Jensen's gift for crafting meticulous worlds filled with outrageous black humor, enlightening and often biblical allegory, and tortured characters.