But let's not forget that the first silent films emerged directly out of the realistic slice-of-life genre of verismo opera.
The "realistic, slice-of-life science fiction series" tells the story of a group of Japanese high school students training to become astronauts in the early 21st century after the country's first human spaceflight launch ends in a disaster that causes many civilian casualties.
Other stories are entirely realistic, slices of life showing how people behave when violence becomes commonplace.
Some people called it a "dramedy"; Feig prefers the term "comma" — comedy that includes realistic slices of drama.
What I'm trying to say is that "The Science of Sleep," for all its blithe disregard of the laws of physics, film grammar and narrative coherence, strikes me as perfectly realistic, as authentic a slice of life as I've encountered on screen in quite some time.
Azuma is also praised for his joyous tone, slice-of-life storytelling, comedic writing, and eccentric yet realistic characters, especially Yotsuba herself.
His first breakthrough came in 1950 playing a criminal in Giuseppe de Santis's "Bitter Rice" (with Silvana Mangano), an unsparing slice of neo-realistic life.
Set in a hyper-realistic, World War I-era slice of the South Seas, the book's exoticism might recall the travels of a certain Belgian boy reporter.
Voters paying for this buy-now, fly-later dream deserve realistic planning and candor, not another slice of political pie in the sky.
Figure 3 shows scalp, skull, CSF and brain tissue boundaries for a four-layer MR-based realistic, a four-layer warped MNI, and a four-layer MNI head models plotted on a sagittal slice of subject S1.
