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When it works well, Milligan's dialogue works as well as some of the later, less symbolic, more explicit Tennessee Williams plays.
Not much in terms of complex plot twists or symbolic messages just a funfilled look at a bar/lounge of that time period.
This film is laced with moody atmosphere, great pacing, quality performances, and a script worked over by the camera that enforces theme and symbolic meaning throughout.
The narrative is an allegorical sermon so thuddingly unsubtle that it's impossible to view it at anything but the symbolic level.
History and human relationships are emphasized through the symbolic order of ancient Greek tragedy and that is what makes the film have a more "heavy" character, which makes it a little harder to follow than a usual Hollywood production- do not misjudge me, I love it too.
As everyone here has already said, the casting was quite terrible and Holmes and Watson's symbolic friendship was condemned to hell in this 'adaptation', but it had some interesting elements.
Chad is symbolic of this manipulation.
In the course of the movie diamonds acquire a further symbolic aspect as the purpose in life.
The starkness of the set is for symbolic purposes and not for form nor for function.
Enjoy amazing scenery of a Spain in 1800's and the symbolic details that all have their meaning: the hands, the birds, the nails.
No, the problem is it's all too obvious and overly symbolic, and the dialogue is annoying because it's not half as clever as it thinks.
In terms of thematic relevance the film does illustrate one reoccurring motif that the writer took note of: prior to executed their elaborate sexual desires, be it through torture, role play or a variety of more bizarre activities, the characters isolated themselves often through the use of a symbolic wardrobe door.
This symbolic "shedding" of their former identities was demonstrated quite poignantly when each of them adopted the traditional garments of the town...the fact that each of them voluntarily assumed such physical transformations evinced a willing preference and readiness for unity.
A little too symbolic with the good guys being just too varied a mixture of nationalities.
Steinbeck deliberately leaves her nameless,partly for symbolic value,but also to deliberately and permanently link her with her brutal,stupid,bullying husband.
The trouble with the this character is symbolic of the entire problem with this film.
Many symbolic films are so twisted that they became pointless to anyone not still trying to earn that "A" in Filmology 101.
During one summer in the late 1960's, a treehouse in rural Mississippi becomes the symbolic heart behind a tug-of-war between a freshly-scrubbed group of school-kids and a bunch of bullying, junkyard teenagers.
Matthew Barney's highly symbolic film is done as bizarre musical, taking place simultaneously in two twin Goodyear blimps and on a football field below.
The tempo of the story is quite mellow, and purposely steady as John William and Joyce H. Corrington's unconventionally enterprising screenplay is thoughtfully literate, and filled with symbolic themes and powerful images (just look at the film's closing shot).
The symbolic representation of this disaster was brilliantly theatrical, but raised some difficult issues of plot resolution that were uncertainly handled.
but more in the end when black lets white been taken by the cops its really starts showing the symbolic meaning of them representing yin and yang, the first example i can give is white talking about that both lost most of there screws but he keeping them all.
I mainly decided to comment because I scrolled down to find a comment from someone in New York who says this was 'a conventional continuation of the British obsession with World War I as being the most symbolic war'.
I do think we see this war as symbolic here in the UK, but I don't think we're the only ones.
I cannot be engaged in a story built exclusively with environmental and symbolic elements and no suspense at all.
"Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo)" is a heavy-handed symbolic linking of class colonialism with sexual obsession and violence.
Inclusive of women, very honest and realistic, this story is symbolic of how many gay men and women feel, without really dealing with 'gay' issues on the surface.
This movie is very symbolic, and bizarre.
In the scene where he kills his own mother is also an symbolic example, his mother says "killing me is like killing yourself Izo", when a population corrupts and destroy there country they destroy there own system...they destroy themselves.
Second I'd like to hear more about the mask and its symbolic.
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