Trying to cram a six-part BBC television series into a 92-minute movie means inevitable narrative tinkering, but "Blood" feels more damaged than most.
As the Passion hews to its inevitable narrative, more than a few audience members may find themselves reflexively humming tunes from "Jesus Christ Superstar," the 1970s musical that, for all of its own sometimes inadvertent campiness, can now be appreciated for creating moments of genuine feeling in its music, metaphors and imaginative staging.
It would be proof that seemingly inevitable narratives don't always come true.
Perhaps more important, these close-ups create a sense of narrative expectation that the face will soon be attached to a name, actions, emotions and the inevitable story.
The theme of both vignettes, called simply enough "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction," is the inevitable tendency of narrative to distort, exploit and wound.
But when the boundaries were reached (and, in some cases, dangerously transgressed), yielding no further insights, it was inevitable that emotion, narrative, artifice and virtuosity in performing, so devalued by the postmodernists, would re-emerge in the generation supplanting them".
"That doesn't feel great all the time, but it's inevitable in any good narrative that there's conflict.
She cited the takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979 as inevitable, given the revolutionary narrative.
The book is a reflection on fear and change, and, though Cusk's skill is always evident, the narrative feels inevitable and natural, profound and familiar.
Here too we see the momentum of the narrative, the inevitable outcome of the plot that Boyle has put in place.
For while it is not organized by the inevitable unfolding of a narrative or an argument, and while its lines may consequently be rearranged with no damage to the poem's information as such, a great deal depends on the particular way in which the information is ordered.
