Metaphor
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'neath the blue patina, charm, and brio were scripts bursting with symbolism and metaphor, music that actually interacted with scenes!
The moment of impact-conclusion is your choice of: a)Shakespearean
metaphor
of life and humanity in a cartoon costume; b)sublimation of violence into homo-erotics; c)humorous detonation of an impossible buildup.
You see that the money is only a
metaphor
for the ambiguous feelings the human being have:Should I do the right thing, or should't I? And... what's the "right thing"?
Even the film is a
metaphor.
That could even be a
metaphor
for this second-rate King Kong movie from Toho studios' stalwart director Ishiro Honda.
Opening with a dream sequence employing the not-so-subtle
metaphor
of Fabrizio wrestling with his menacing hound, the film details his psychological persecution of Laura, the girl who has pledged her love to him, and his eventual romance with the equally malicious Sylvia.
Yes there is the gilded cage
metaphor
but probably most kids would miss that.
This is a satirical look at conspiracy theories and theorists, with the knotting-up of the plot used as a
metaphor
for the knotting-up of truths, half-truths and lies that define any conspiracy.
The negative character, is destiny if I could use this
metaphor.
They're like the equivalent of a carton of McDonald's fries--they taste Really good and you know there's not much nutritional value in them (re: from a literary standpoint, they don't say much about the universal human condition), but you're still gonna scarf 'em down, just don't be a pig and go for the extra-super-sized portion and fill up on too much grease ("too much grease" is a
metaphor
for the prose in King's novels when find yourself reading one of them and saying come on--enough with the pop-cultural observations or clever Yankee asides--get on with the story already!)
The exploding zeppelins crashing down upon 'Sky Captain' Jude Law's base present an adequate
metaphor
to describe how truly terrible this movie is.
Kroko the metaphoric German problem child remains a pure
metaphor
without any capability of positive involvement despite several plot-wise chances to do so.
could have been so much more, fine lead actor, and i always like Fairuza Balk, but come on, the alt-rock
metaphor
of just staring vacantly unable to find anything compelling is just so tired, and it sure doesn't make for good films.
The chemistry between the two stars makes for a fairly moving experience and further revelation can be gleaned from the movie if witchcraft is seen as a
metaphor
for the private pain that hampers many people's relationships.
What I also appreciated in Fellowes' script is the use of a game of Chess,as a
metaphor
for some of the film's political motivation (the characters in the film move about like the pieces on a Chess board).
Bellocchio refers to this as a mainly political movie, a description of the revolutionary movement in Italy, but that seems more
metaphor
than reality.
Well, almost everything in the movie seems like
metaphor.
the idea that they suspected that Carell was a serial killer is a hilarious
metaphor
for a forty-year old virgin.
The controlling
metaphor
is Louis's heart transplant for which he goes to Korea and then to Tahiti to search for another son, not found, and where Louis's new heart rejects him just as Sidney rejected the old.
Kowalski serves as a
metaphor
for Waco and Ruby Ridge, where the US government, with the cooperation of the mainstream media, threw around words like "white supremacist" and "right wing extremists as well as trumped-up drug charges to abridge the most fundamental of its' citizens rights, with the willing acquiescence of the general populace.
An excellent film for those into period dramas, the auteur's euphemistic chess play
metaphor
for orgasmic delight is an indication of the subtle wit behind the film.
It was one of the most interesting trailers I've ever seen: the questions it posed really stopped me and made me think, the unique approach to the sport of boxing as a
metaphor
for the "battle within"... thank god somebody is hitting another angle with the boxing thing.
The act of running is a
metaphor
for these down-on-their luck people's lives.
Perhaps this may strike some as a heavy-handed
metaphor
for what's about to come: marriage on the rocks, so to speak.
"I like cheap perfume better; it doesn't last as long..." - Ralph Meeker's convict character (Lawson) tells this to Barbara Stanwyck's Helen character, after he gets a whiff of the perfume that she picked out w/her husband in Tijuana...! This line cracked me up, and also seemed like a
metaphor
for this film - that cheap is better than expensive, because a cheap perfume-loving man who has a way with a 2 x 4 is a better man to have around in the long run!
That element never achieves the ominous feeling of
metaphor
or analogy that it attempts to, which results in the play being too gaudy and losing its trademark sense of a thousand mysteries looming.
In this truly fascinating, dark film, a young impoverished student sells his soul to the devil for a lot of money, in return the devil takes his mirror image (this is done brilliantly in the movie and eerily presaged when Balduin, the student is earlier practicing swordsmanship in front of the mirror), a visual
metaphor
for a "man at war with himself" which portents his immediate future.
Throw in an astonishingly illiterate script ("Famine's hand will stalk the land" -- how's that for a mixed metaphor?),
If nothing past the first fifteen minutes of a film is 'real', and the main character dies at the end of a film with the realization that the things you just saw were all some literature professor's self-referential wet dream of
metaphor
and allegory, then what is this film worth?
It could be seen as an AIDS
metaphor
and it's full of Cronenberg's usual queasy motifs but it's also pretty terrible.
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