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There were a number of metaphors and hidden meanings that an average viewer might have overlooked.
It contains a lot of references, metaphors and symbols in the dense amount of material, especially with a running time of 9 minutes.
In a 40s thriller!), the film has an upright hero who turns mad and murderous (and possibly paedophiliac), brilliantly brings the faraway ideologies of the Spanish Civil War into jolting dangerous reality, has one horrific murder, an astonishing insights into class and capitalism, clever theatrical metaphors, a rare approximation of Greene's God, and an ending that is only happy if you know nothing about history.
Perhaps the most interesting and unique aspect of the show was the ability to merge pop culture (e.g., bands of the era, Jerry Springer), archetypal human condition/morality (e.g., the importance of friendship, the spirit of Christmas), and the literal representation of such related metaphors in the Magical Realm.
If you can endure the saccharin and the stolen physical metaphors (e.g., worst use of a flying whale as a template for terror), have fun ripping it to shreds (ala MST3000).
The concept and plot (a platoon of American soldiers uncovering underground tunnels built by the Viet Cong to stage ambushes) are one and the same; and the metaphors paralleling confined spaces to the erosion of sanity are strong--hysteria is very viscerally believable here.
This movie adeptly presents the complexities of culture and nationalism using parallels and metaphors interwoven in a culture few will encounter.
The screenplay is excellent, full of metaphors and a rich use of very carefully chosen words.
Sometimes his metaphors are obvious and sometimes not and while this is definitely not a movie that every one will enjoy-if you have an open mind- it deserves to be seen.
I have no idea what it was trying to be, if its intentions were to be artistically driven metaphors etc, or if it was just a bad idea.
I know the story has very solid metaphors for fearful discrimination but after awhile it's like we get it enough.
This documentary short shoots you with more irrelevant metaphors than the regular Coleman Francis feature, and it leaves you feeling depressed and empty knowing the greatest joys in life always lead to the death of you and your loved ones.
A true successor of the Apu trilogy!'Memories in the mist'by Dasgupta artistically and metaphorically inter-wovens the memories and fantasies of a man of his beloved and lost father.Set in the backdrop of North Kolkata,the story paces to and fro between past and present,between reality and imagination,between innocence and lucre!Amongst the numerous metaphors used in the movie,the one which cant be helped mentioning is the reference of the piper which beckons the man to his past,his childhood and his unfulfilled dreams.With this movie,Dasgupta has also endeavored to find the base of our relationships.At the end of the film,the man reveals himself to his father and thus to the audience,and thus forces us to remind of Apu who would,despite hostility as conferred by fate,love and wonder!That is probably the reason some critic has mentioned it as'the closest modern equivalent'to a Ray movie.But whatever international applaud it gets,it may not get along too well with the Bengali audience because of its sheer lack of bangaliyana(Bengali traditions and customs)as compared to a new wave cinema by Ray or Ghatak.
From there we are given examples of pimps who seem to rely on foul language (however Americans do have some extremely colorful metaphors), prostitutes, crooked cops and truckers who are more goofy than anything.
It takes way too many liberties with the story and replaces almost all of the themes and metaphors with simplistic and uninspired doppelgangers.
Especially when they get stranded on the rock near the end and their conversation runs from cannibalism to Moby Dick to metaphors about Mulder and a peg leg.
"August Rush" is very uplifting, and rich with metaphors about the simplicity and beauty of music.
Circles within circles, metaphors for metaphors.
Many highly original metaphors for the depraved state of our society has come to decorate this film, which is probably the best portrayal of the loneliness that our so called civilized world drives many unique persons to if they are no longer of any use.
This may be his first 'great' movie, but in some sections it betrays his relative inexperience as a film maker - it slightly loses focus in the central part of the movie and he occasionally over-eggs his metaphors (something Kurosawa was always inclined to do).
the horror begins immediately, as do the social metaphors and ideas of sex and death.
Once again we have to deal with Mr. Grubin's use of mundane metaphors.
Matthew Saliba is a talented filmmaker and I hope he will continue exploring symbolism and metaphors in cinema and continue to develop his unique style.
This movie was a bad mix of awful acting, sloppy story-telling, mixed metaphors, really bad acting, pseudo-Christian propaganda, 2nd-rate CGI, and really awful acting--yes, I know I mentioned the acting several times but it was just that bad.
Metaphors can be useful as general precautions, but they become dangerous when they convey a sense of historical inexorableness.
These orders of magnitude require metaphors and repetition, but they serve as crucial concepts in our world, especially in cosmology and in evolutionary biology.
To switch animal metaphors, it is a watchdog without teeth.
In his vulgar use of Holocaust metaphors to portray the Iranian threat, he sounds more like the principal of a Jewish ghetto about to be annihilated by an agitated mob than the prime minister of the most powerful country in the Middle East.
NEWPORT BEACH – When it comes to describing Europe’s ever-worsening crisis, metaphors abound.
I, too, am fond of metaphors.
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