But the films and the filmmakers have been linked both for their unapologetically graphic depiction of the sex act and for the still-newsworthy fact that they were made by women and told from their female protagonists' points of view.
Our study is among the few to have used in-depth interviews to ascertain the protagonists' points of view on how quality of care in nursing homes should be conceptualized, and is the only one conducted at a nursing home in a Mediterranean cultural setting.
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1941's "Lucy" is told from another young male protagonist's point of view.
He also introduces a great device to impose the protagonist's point of view: Belfort narrates the action even while he's in the midst of living it, addressing the camera with monologues that show him to be both inside and outside the events, converging on-screen his present and former selves.
He has been praised for his use of the subjective camera to portray the protagonist's point of view, an approach characterized by such subtle touches as right-to-left camera pans that move contrary to normal eye movement and thereby create a slightly disconcerting effect and suggest a subjectively distorted world.
The beauty of the film is that it's style and humor are very mainstream and accessible but it's content is pushing boundaries and there's a message about wanting to have a normal life just everyone else from the gay protagonist's point of view.
My chief wish for the present political moment is to see it turn quickly into a forgotten past, but having already pondered the protagonist's point of view I find myself perversely, maybe even penitentially, thinking about all the other considerations one would have to give to a novel about 2016.
It's a show from a female protagonist's point of view, and it's refreshing and fun.
Whether or not one wants to judge if survivors "survived and that's about it," the reduction of a visual field to anonymous background blurs is a perfectly cogent interpretation of a protagonist's point of view.
Because the show is so firmly situated within its protagonist's point of view, this was treated as something of just another way to accomplish some nasty business in the first half of the season.
