"It's a bit like the music and the film business in the sense that drug use and in particular cocaine performs a functional purpose, " Shapiro told CNN.
It imbues the film with a sense of place and it's a lovely way to make a film.
But when Jim discovers heroin and the film finds a sense of responsibility the freedom disappears: the latter half becomes a gruelling catalogue of cold nights, blue lips, and scummy needles.
"What comes through powerfully in the film is their sense that the best they can do is create some political space for others, the political elite, to step in to do what must be done, " remarked Daniel Levy of the European Council of Foreign Policy, who's had extensive experience in Israeli-Palestinian peace-making.
This is both a reference to the self-absorbed role of the film's narrator, and to the broader sense that such campaigns can be deeply paternalistic, even neo-colonial, in their portrayal of Africans as helpless victims who must be saved by brave foreigners.
The film "has that same sense of wonder and shock and awe, " as some of the bigger summer films, he says.
It's under-exposed, unfortunately, so that some scenes aren't just dark, they're dim, but the film also has a palpable sense of space and texture.
You get a sense from the film of how useful it could be to have drones in New York airspace to record what happened there without having people dangerously wandering around with cameras.
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It was the last vestige, along with (to a much lesser extent), Titanic and The Sixth Sense, of the idea that a hit film could play in theaters for months and months on end.
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Moreover, what distinguishes the current crop of German film makers is a sense for entertaining audiences and perish the thought getting them to laugh.
Although Mr Ahmed says it felt "uncomfortable opening up, " he credits the film with helping him to make sense of what happened to him.
If the new film commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania.
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This sense of vulnerability is what the film is able to capture.
In a sense, this is what the film itself does.
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The film is an adventure story in the truest sense: the filmmakers lead us into unknown territory, and keep pushing us farther and farther on, until, by the end, we find ourselves deep in the wilderness of the seventeenth-century consciousness.
"In the Valley of Elah" -- the name comes from the locale of David's battle against Goliath -- is not a great film, but its acute sense of anguish and betrayal may resonate in the same way that 1978's "The Deer Hunter" did 30 years ago.
The Avengers is a very funny film, and its sense of humor and self-reflection is its greatest strength.
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He said we clearly didn't know what we wanted to say in the film and that it didn't make any sense.
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Now, with all the fees, not many a film pays off at 2-to-1, but the deal could still make sense if the investor used a lot of leverage to goose the tax effect.
You sense that Branagh had more fun making the film than we could ever have watching it.
Bill Block, who purchased indie films The Blair Witch Project and Pi for Artisan, and now runs QED, a film financing and distribution company, says the strategy makes sense.
He collaborated with David Byrne on the classic Talking Heads concert film, "Stop Making Sense, " in 1984, and music is a crucial part of his dramatic movies, including 1993's "Philadelphia, " which features deeply emotional original songs from Young and Bruce Springsteen.
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Lee, whose previous credits include the martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Jane Austen adaptation Sense and Sensibility and comic book blockbuster Hulk, saw his latest film win a total of four Oscars in February.
The film has punch, but it never really conveys the delicious, redeeming sense that life can be lived on the hoof.
It didn't make sense to choose a system that worked against the tone of the film.
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The film has text and subtext worth chewing on, as well as a strong sense of its prime character.
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The artists at Legend3D began by studying every shot in the film and mapping out each element on screen in order to create a realistic sense of depth.
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Curiously, even though Gekko is the film's villain, the character seems to be remembered largely in a positive sense--as a business guru, a take-no-prisoners negotiator and an all-around master of the universe.
We get plenty of footage, most of it menacingly narrated by Donald Sutherland and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but we get the clear sense that nothing we are seeing is past the first act of the film.
Mr. PETER STEIN (San Francisco Jewish Film Festival): There's a sense that Jewish life throughout the world is under siege, Israel as a nation is under siege, but what is really remarkable about Jewish culture is the insistence on self-questioning.
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