That, ultimately, may be why East Is East remains such a compelling work: it explores race and belonging, but, more than that, it depicts a particular strain of masculinity that has existed across all communities and times – it is about those frightened, flawed fathers who seek to control their families because they cannot control the future.
Charismatic art makes us want to live in the higher world that it depicts, to behave like its heroes and heroines, and to think and act according to their values.
Although the Battle of Alexander is atypical of Altdorfer in its size and in that it depicts war, his Triumphal Procession – a 1512 16 illuminated manuscript commissioned by Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire – has been described as a conceptual antecedent.
Yet "The Social Network"—and this may be its limitation isn't at all interested in the functioning of the network, in the reasons for its success, nor in the vast changes that it depicts.
Yet "The Social Network" — and this may be its limitation — isn't at all interested in the functioning of the network, in the reasons for its success, nor in the vast changes that it depicts.
North Korea has shown no inclination to back off its nuclear program or to stop the launchings that it depicts as needed to send satellites into orbit, but that Western countries believe are tests for technology to create missiles that could eventually be used to deliver nuclear weapons.
She is attended by a host of British actors — Paul Bettany, though too young, makes a winning and cynical Lord Melbourne, and Jim Broadbent, resembling a Gillray cartoon, detonates the stolid tale with a loud, and well-attested, explosion of rage at a banquet — but the movie, like the age that it depicts, stands or falls on the woman at its core.
The film's very existence is significant; it provides pleasure and fascination to the limited extent that it depicts Marieme's world, and limits that pleasure by its willful blanking out of Marieme's inner life (which I was, as a viewer, eagerly impatient to learn) and of her surroundings.
The plaque beneath it says that it depicts mid-July.
You could blow it up and paste it up on the very street that it depicts.
The sadistic brainteaser interviewing that it depicts has now been dropped.
