"Midnight in Paris," a fast-paced tale of whimsy, is nothing less than a quest for the redemption of the banal, the immediate, and the personal; a sort of apologia, in the end of days, for the tangled trail of Allen's own life — and of all lives — as both the stuff and the method of art.
Over all, he seemed like a man on a genuine quest for redemption — or a very good liar.
At its core, The Last Ship poses a religious quest for redemption: Father Jim Fred Applegatee) hears Gideon's confession of sins of the flesh, drink, and foul talk.
Departing from that playwright and filmmaker's more customary contemporary-relationships terrain, this new comedy follows two mercenary 14th-century French knights as they wade through ecclesiastical politics on a quest for relative moral redemption.
While the complex Afghan social structure and Soviet invasion give this novel its framework, its resonance derives from a lost friendship and a deeply personal quest for redemption. .
For many, Abel Ferrara will forever be the master provocateur, synonymous with drugs, booze, and tortured Catholicism, obsessed with documenting man's existential bad faith and tortured quest for redemption, a la Bad Lieutenant.
Outside the diner, amid an awkward silence, we put her son's belongings into the trunk of her aging Cadillac as if somehow the arrival of the two backpacks from Mexico made the reality of Malcolm's death all the more final, his quest for redemption an ultimately fruitless effort.
