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How you could say that Peaches, with its complex narrative dealing with a multitude of issues, is "a small TV idea" is beyond me.
The story is farfetched, the acting is merely functional, but it shows how imaginative effects can develop an entire visual narrative.
I rapidly became absorbed in the unfolding of the narrative and remained engrossed throughout.
If you try to pin down the narrative of this film, or the philosophical message, or the symbolist structure, etc. you will waste your time.
My on negative comment is that at times I find the film too simplistically buying in to the various narrative threads that run through it.
The Tahiti father-son narrative, even though it's not exactly conventional, ends up making things a little to clear and simple.
The events of the narrative depict Corbett as a brash but likable and intelligent young man whose conquest of the world of boxing and social prejudice in his time, when he was considered merely the son of Irish immigrants, a lowly bank teller and a nobody surprised everyone.
And it's a great, fun, adventurous narrative.
Capably directed by Kallio (who also wrote the tight, astute script), with uniformly fine acting by a sound no-name cast (Jeff Steiger is especially good as Eric's wannabe helpful guardian angel Michael), rather rough, but overall polished cinematography by George Lieber, believable true-to-life characters, jolting outbursts of raw, shocking and unflinchingly ferocious violence, a moody, spooky score by Dan Kolton, an uncompromisingly downbeat ending, grungy Detroit, Michigan locations, a grimly serious tone, and a taut, gripping narrative that stays on a steady track throughout, this extremely potent and gritty psychological horror thriller makes for often absorbing and disturbing viewing.
The background paintings vary from traditional "fantasy" motif to outright abstraction, but the transition to abstracted settings is always motivated by the narrative and contributes greatly to the themes of the film.
Sensitive film does lack brilliance and, to some degree, narrative structure, but is nevertheless superbly shot and performed.
However, the narrative structure point is debatable.
It wasn't really what Griffith had expected when he decided to enter the movie business, but he accepted the job, and in less than a year he became Biograph's most successful director thanks to his original approach to film-making and the wild inventive of his narrative.
Rosenstrasse is not a masterpiece, and some narrative flaws are well discerned.
I love American films - probably because they are so narrative.
Briefly, we are allowed to tell about the story: a girl comes into a European Cafeteria and then... Soft transit from nonsense mystery to narrative logic.
Director Duccio Tessari relates the absorbing story at a constant snappy pace, maintains a properly serious and no-nonsense tone throughout, stages the stirring shoot-outs and exciting car chases with considerable rip-snorting brio, and punctuates the narrative with jolting outbursts of explosive bloody violence.
Phantom of Liberty for the most part is quite a normal film with a structured narrative and some quite well defined characters What makes it brilliant is the fact that one minute, its just a normal film and then a scene where a family sit at a table on toilet seats is thrown at us.
Lynch likes to make the point again and again that our sense of narrative is socially constructed, and he thus takes great delight in subverting our expectations by breaking the narrative line repeatedly.
The sexual implications in the narrative aren't ignored by Welles, though they are tip-toed around (probably due to the restrictions of 1968), and when Welles as the "old gentleman" finds himself the perfect boy to complete his plan, it's hard not to smirk when he calls the bottle-blonde "a fine looking sailor" and then offers him money.
Screwing up the basics can often be enough to suspend belief in the overall narrative.
It's a romantic comedy so by definition you expect to forgive some contrived story-telling, but in return you expect some kind of narrative sleight of hand to distract you from the mechanics.
But it wasn't really either of those things, but an experiment in depth for the camera and narrative structures.
(Karakter; Wilde Mossels; De Grot) These were truly awful films without ANY real narrative structure to make you want to continue from frame to frame.
The jazz vocal narrative is annoying and out of place.
The overall narrative isn't bad.
This is an "art film" narrative gone wrong.
Actors all did a fairly solid job but the script and the narrative where derivative, unexciting and dull.
There isn't anything to "get" here that you might think you're missing, and anyone who puts this in the same category as Pulp Fiction or any other movie with a semblance of action, humour or even a decent narrative, doesn't know what they're talking about.
The appearance of the Holmes stories was a revolution in narrative.
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