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The plot's been done before--what plot hasn't--but the tensions inherent in it, with the additional complications and motivations arising out of the illicit love affair, make for an absorbing first half.
Then, to avoid dealing with the actual tensions that these opposing viewpoints bring up, the scriptwriters simply inserted some random shooting, more army guys show up and they just end up beating everyone up.
Time passes, tensions develop (or are supposed to).
The story deals with racial tensions, society frowning on mixed relations and extra marital affairs.
At that point I didn't know about prisons, violence, racial tensions, or the struggle to survive & live free.
Unfortunately, tensions rise, and the teens inside turn on each other.
The film also deals directly with the class tensions of the early twentieth century and touches upon the profound anti-Catholic prejudices of both the British and American establishments.
A mature, subtle script that suggests and occasionally brings into dramatic focus the underlying tensions is well served by perfect performances (apart from the odd inappropriate smiling that Keira Knightley is prone to, though perhaps under direction this time as the other characters themselves often mention it).
In other words, it's one of the most realistic looks at the beat generation, jazzed sweetly in it's score and telling a tale of racial tensions.
Racial tensions, politics, the Vietnam War, sexual promiscuity, and drug use were all part of the daily fabric, and the daily news.
After all, this city has been the starting point of the extremist right-wing Flemish Block party and is struggling with a lot of problems and tensions between different populations and cultures.
The tensions generated between Huppert and Balibar as women calmly but calculatingly at war over a boy they both claim are compelling; however, in a true European art-house style, Ruiz doesn't give us release of this tension as the women alternately also try to behave compassionately towards each other.
viewers learn the underlying tensions quickly, which is a tribute to the director.
Stewart and Sullavan are perfect as the average couple with real emotions and tensions, and the rest of the well-developed characters have their own sub-plots and in-jokes.
The characters behave in appropriate ways, the natural tensions between various characters leads to general chaos.
Its subtle themes of belonging, identity, racial relations and especially how colonialism harms all parties, transcend the obvious dramatic tensions, the nostalgic memories of the protaganiste's childhood, and the exoticism of her relationship with her parents' "houseboy," perhaps the only "real" human she knows.
But, whereas the tensions between the dancers rehearsing Blood Wedding showed to advantage how they evolved into the fictional characters of the story to be performed through directing their emotions into their roles, in Carmen, the parallel between the petty, libidinal urges of the dancers of the troop during rehearsals and the spirit forging to do with the mythic Carmen never comes even close to being believable.
In conception a splendid film, investigating the tensions that occur in family life in the idyllic setting of Galiano Island off the coast of British Columbia, _The Lotus Eaters_ is marred by the fact that it has been packaged as a made-for-TV movie, diminishing itself throughout by the addition of chirpy music over potentially powerful scenes, as if to get ready for the interruption of commercials.
Preparations for historical appointment with Mussolini.Emotions , tensions and forms of self-affirmation.
For some reason it clicked on all my levels, tensions in a family, loneliness and the want of someone to share your life with.
While sexual tension in a show can often become a crutch, I feel the tensions on enterprise can lead to much more and say alot more than is typical.
But more important, they each confront the unspoken tensions that can affect any family.
There appeared to be on-set tensions that were inscrutable.
Gypo (offensive slang for 'Gypsy') is a film that connects with the audience on the issue of racial tensions in a way that few films can.
The character development was awesome and the tensions between the characters could be cut with a knife (sorry, you'll see why!).
"Nowhere" has it all, including its share of sexual tensions between all of the characters, as well as random outbursts of insanity (at one point involving a character being brutally killed with a can of Campbell's tomato soup).
Yes, bisexual tensions, and just enough of them for you not to say "I can't take this anymore".
I really enjoyed the multicultural aspects, and felt the tensions between characters as their individual mysteries unfold to be very charming, sincere and often surprisingly touching.
Most of each character's decisions are partially justified and partly immoral, yet they all increase tensions and further flare up the fighting.
Many other works have examined the tensions of the father-son relationship much better.
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