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To me this film is just a very very lame teen party movie with all the normal clichés and boring stereotyped characters (Nerds, Jocks, Popular girls, Sleezy guys, etc) but with an underlying anti drug/drinking theme.
But the underlying message - about God's and others' forgiveness for our real or perceived sins - is positive and unique in cinema, and the cast is very very good.
This movie has different tear-jerker, dramatic, serious underlying themes (particularly with a scene with Steven Seagal).
Internet predators seems to be the underlying plot here.
The Hollywood take on gypsy life and customs is predictably portrayed, but the underlying knowledge that they would be one of the targets for extermination by the Nazis adds a certain tension.
Of course he doesn't mention the underlying historical socio-economic reasons for many of his prejudices.
Both formats have an underlying form of fiction and are never a true reflection of reality as producers seek to reconstruct and narrate stories in their perspectives.
Underlying these human endeavors is the challenge to reconsider the origin of life.
We don't have to wonder about hidden meanings or try to figure out underlying themes.
That's the underlying theme of this martial arts romp which borrows ideas from "Underworld" and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" but manages to maintain a style of its own.
Yet oddly enough, there is a tender story of human relationships (Finkelstein, the Jew, with Newman, the non-Jew, primarily) underlying the cruel story.
The three women Max has met symbolize something we must pursue although possibly having no clear picture about the underlying motivations.
It has an underlying air of eeriness, interspersed with shafts of humour which are not out of place, and serve to demonstrate the assured direction & production values involved.
Rich in the underlying decay of western civilization and dripping with alternative existence in a way we have never seen before.
What is extraordinary is that she not only conveys Lucy's dottiness, tactlessness and her more lovable qualities BUT she also manages to pull off the underlying truth that in fact, Lucy is not really all that nice!
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).
The underlying theme of this movie is the innocent child (Heather Graham as Joline) struggling to make her naive wishes for how the world should be make sense while being incessantly beaten down by the real world.
Watch the movie, be consciously made as happy and joyful and full of laughter as the best ever Saturday Night Live skit, and let the subconscious soak in the documentary of the underlying reality.
If you can get past gore and see what the underlying story of a sick mind.
While the underlying "general" storyline is somewhat familiar, this film was excellent.
What is the underlying vision/idea/concept behind this rendering of Shakespeare?
And, as one might be inclined seeing as how it is very much about the cutaways of suburban life of the 1960s, it has that escapism of the film mentioned before, but of a more concrete, near timeless quality with the drama and the underlying issues.
There was an underlying current which ran through the movie of teenage angst and sexuality.
At times you think this is campy and over the top, but the underlying poetic soul comes across strong and believable thanks to the performances of the two leads.
'Joe' is not a great movie, but it is an interesting display of class and culture alienation and the animalistic underlying extremes to the generation gap.
Some of the aliens are quite grotesque, but there is an underlying humour which makes it unmissable.
That has been done time and time again in 2D in a zombie movie but what usually makes a zombie movie better is the underlying story not the actual flesh-eating.
Now yes, I understand the references to the bible (Exodus) and the underlying theme, but first of all, it was presented with absolutely no resolution, and second of all it would be lost to anyone who has not read the bible (a significant portion of the population) or Charles Fort (a still larger portion).
The underlying story is about the ship, the crew and their exploits in the war.
The underlying message of an over-50 woman unable to make it on her own, without male assistance is bad, bad, BAD.
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