The garish filigree of the gonzo director, Terry Gilliam, surrounds this fable of redemption with pseudo-originality.
Astonishingly, Hess turns this fable-like premise into a juvenile but grand-scale vision of earth and heaven.
Steven Spielberg directs this fable with his customary fluency and warmth, and the movie has some charming passages a dinner party served by the maintenance men is a highlight but the narrative lacks drive and a serious reason to exist.
So thoroughly has this fable soaked into the culture that it is now mere conventional wisdom that if we just let it all out from the deep recesses of our souls--the anger, the fear, the prejudice, whatever--we will all be better off.
Most cultures would endorse that principle, which is why this apparently exotic fable should strike echoing chords worldwide.
This compact crystallization of fable and reality is as ample as a full-length feature.
This recession-age fable, which revolves around love, work, family pressures, and hidebound traditions, is set in contemporary Lisbon but breathes the air of a dreamy, timeless romanticism one that befits the long view of life taken by its hundred-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira.
The novel demands to be read like this, as a fable, for while it roots around in the stench and swill of life, it is at the same time a highly figurative tale about truth versus fact, about meaning, and the power of language both to carry and destroy it.
But so far, this is worlds ahead of Fable 3, and if he could capture a little bit of the magic that made him a gaming name with Populous, he might just become relevant again.
The director Walter Hill set this sizzling rock-and-roll fable in a mythical Everymetropolis.
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