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So much of this film seems already acquainted, from its appealing crime thriller stylization to its narrative echoes of Reservoir Dogs, Heat and Bonnie and Clyde, that when it takes one of its unprecedented turns it overcomes you.
The footage is really nice and the narrative gets the job done.
As the narrative progresses and audience follow Chris's life, they are almost drawn into events, surprisingly sharing the pain, laughter and emotional on screen state off screen.
Sex scenes of blatant perversion are piled onto an unclear narrative giving them a gratuitous feeling despite the air of self-importance that pervades the proceedings.
Two Lane Blacktop is one of those movies that doesn't offer a lot of narrative and its characters don't have names, but it seduces us with its images of freedom and a seemingly constant nomadic cruise through beautiful landscapes.
There was no real character development, nor narrative development.
For me, a disappointing sequel to the successful, breezy "That'll Be The Day" as the bright young scallywag Jim MacLaine (David Essex) somewhat improbably tries his luck in the rock industry only to crash and burn by the end having lived the rock dream to the bitter end, along the way cramming into the narrative as many rock clichés as you can think of.
It possesses the best of say a Wim Wenders masterpiece, coupled with the narrative of a whacked-out indie great.
Both the narrative and pictorial silences in this film say so much more than most films do in the entirety.
Its narrative, as I view it, is characterised by the move from bad to worse.
The film makes very credible narrative of the pre Buddhist phase of Asoka and his conversion.
For example-there is something fundamentally wrong with the narrative pattern which has overlapped many themes such as religion, greed and the need to be over ambitious.The good thing about this film is that it can make viewers aware of the tremendous pressure an average Filipino has to face when he or she is confronted with issues like religion and money.Juding all these facts, one can arrive at the conclusion that Santa Santita is an average film about globalization and how it has touched lives of certain individuals.
Gonzalez Inarritu tries to use a conventional narrative structure that doesn't conform at all to the limitations of short film.
There are a couple of fun but ever-so brief skits with caricatures of W.C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin at the beginning of the short and when Frankenstein's monster enters the narrative he gets to perform a camera-eating and self-repairing routine which is the highlight of the cartoon.
At 98 minutes the film is too long and would benefit tremendously from a ten minute trim, particularly the scenes where various voodoo practioners stop the narrative dead to deliver pages of expository mumbo jumbo in an attempt to give some kind of spiritual context to the proceedings.
Like the son of another famous Universal monster, this third entry in the series (not counting the 1931 Spanish Dracula) is a solid film all round: marvelous atmosphere, gripping narrative, superb handling.
However, the narrative provides true entertainment.
On top of that, the poor song and dance numbers in the film disrupt the narrative flow.
Even though the narrative was indeed disjointed, if you have the attention span, you can figure it out.
What sets this film apart from other recent releases that have incorporated hardcore footage as part of their narrative (like the astonishing BAISE-MOI or Lars Von Trier's THE IDIOTS) is that here there is actual warmth and sensuality to the copulation sequences, even when the protagonists are beating the feces out of each other, making it much harder one presumes for moralists to condemn on grounds of lacking humanity or compassion.
'Nemesis' is one of Christie's last books and by this stage in her career the narrative tended to ramble and there were plot-holes aplenty.
Possibly we could then argue that Eisenstein's and Alexandrov's "Romance Sentimentale", an attempt to create a narrative for an Opera that they call "that old Russian song", is one of the first music videos?
One of my favorite things about the film was the editing between the narrative and the performances(s?)
He plays with narrative and plot, introducing characters seemingly at random, yet he's always in full control, and the fun is in finding out just that.
It is another of Miike's "stranger" offerings as it isn't a cut-and-dry narrative film.
I personally like a little more narrative in my films - but IZO is a very intriguing and beautifully shot film.
Prominent upon Burson's cinematic agenda is development of scenes for their sensationalist value, including repugnant violence, heroin use and stylized sexual activity; unfortunately, few of these advance the storyline and none has narrative worth.
The first 25 minutes of this movie are a barrage of musical numbers meant to launch you into the narrative and to sum up the hoofers life in vaudeville.
War and Remembrance might be an informative narrative for a history student unfamiliar with that era, but it is not for the squeamish seeking television entertainment.
If one is new to Keaton, knowing only that he was a deadpan comedian who performed hilarious yet often dangerous stunts then this will be something of (in the words Oscar Hammerstein put into the mouth of the King Of Siam) a puzzlement; it boasts a more or less straightforward narrative in which engineer Keaton's train is stolen by Union troops during The War Between The States and he sets off in pursuit.
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