Word: motifs
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...Cannes regular described Old Boy as a Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers?and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of genre. The gnarled story line, also familiar to fans of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, careers from 1988 (when the main character, Oh Dae Su, is kidnapped and confined without being told what his crime...
...last challenger to unseat an incumbent President, Bill Clinton, ran on the axiom that it's "the economy, stupid." He won, but that does not make the assumption--that Presidents control the economy--any less fictitious. They do not. The idea that they do, the central motif of most every presidential election, is crazy...
...boundary between art and politics seems hard to control. According to Gogel, when the words “ISRAEL” appeared as the motif of one tile, Art Squatters painted “Palestine” next to it to neutralize the political intonation. But a similar neutralizer for a tile that reads “NO WAR” is nowhere to be found...
...last challenger to unseat an incumbent President, Bill Clinton, ran on the axiom that it's "the economy, stupid." He won, but that does not make the assumption - that Presidents control the economy - any less fictitious. They do not. The idea that they do, the central motif of most every presidential election, is crazy...
...boy’s fantasy, as Danielle immediately takes Matthew under her wing and introduces him to a life of skipping class, belly shirts, and strip clubs. But the plot seems secondary to director Luke Greenfield’s desire to experiment with the use of porn as a motif while still adhering to the restrictions of an R rating. The mold of the standard high school film is certainly broken with The Girl Next Door, but in this particular instance, the result is merely soft-core blandness...