Word: metaphors
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...This documentary, a brilliant example of artistic expression in the service of social commentary, uses fish as a political metaphor for globalization, and, in doing so, challenges the notion of documentary film “propaganda...
...when the narrator of “Funny Little Frog” sings to his love that “you’re my picture on the wall/you’re my vision in the hall,” he’s not using a metaphor; the poor bloke’s having a relationship with an imaginary friend. While it often grasps at the sublime, “The Life Pursuit” falls short of greatness. It could have been a perfectly crafted EP—of which this band has already made several?...
When outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, a scholar of China, introduced Lawrence H. Summers at a meeting of alumni donors back in fall 2004, he offered a telling, if elaborate, metaphor for the University president’s relationship with the Faculty.“Confucius asked, ‘How does one govern a family’—or, by extension, a university? And his answer was this, ‘You govern a family’—or a university—’as if you would cook...
...have no place in Red’s forest, none of the motion is smooth, and every possible corner is cut: when characters aren’t talking, they often just freeze in place until their next line. The most ridiculous example of animator negligence, actually, is a perfect metaphor for the film itself. In one scene, Red falls out of a chairlift and hits a few thin, leafy tree branches on her way down. But instead of bending to her body weight like normal branches, these remain immobile as Red connects with and bounces off of each one with...
...fire. One of the miners who died at Sago, Martin Toler Jr., wrote a note in his last hours: "Tell all I see them on the other side." It was the last sentiment of a man whom family described as deeply religious. But it was also a simple metaphor for the daily hope of every worker who delves in those deep reaches: to rise again and see the faces they love once more. And the fervent wish?felt, in our direst hours, by even the most secular among us?to step from the darkness into the light...