Writing in The Times, Stephen Holden said, "The center of the film is an unforgettably gripping, heart-in-your-throat evocation of the unbearable loneliness and terror of ultimate abandonment once its hero, stranded and presumed dead, gives up hope of being rescued but still clings tenaciously to life".
The center of the film is an unforgettably gripping, heart-in-your-throat evocation of the unbearable loneliness and terror of ultimate abandonment once its hero, stranded and presumed dead, gives up hope of being rescued but still clings tenaciously to life.
"I wanted it to be like when you hear music and you close your eyes and images pop into your head, evocations, not illustrations," he explained.
Your induction into whatever!
Depending on your own beliefs, it's either a bracing evocation of the American work ethic or a paean to ruthless careerism and the American superiority complex.
Among six charming songs by the Argentine composer Luis Gianneo, "Dejá de Cantar" ("Stop Your Singing") was particularly appealing for its warbling evocation of a goldfinch's trill.
The Yankees are eight years removed from their last world championship, but it's hard not to regard the new stadium, with its over-the-top evocation of Yankee mythology, as an in-your-face assertion of Yankee might, a pointed and — depending on your perspective — either desperate or reassuring reminder that the team is less a baseball club than an American institution.
Moments later unorthodox playing techniques employed en masse render an uncanny facsimile of a punishing storm — not a poetic evocation, but almost literally the sound outside your window on a gray, blustery day.
Like "Irma Voth," it's a sly, humorous but still distressing evocation of a young Mennonite's predicament, which is your standard small-town adolescent crisis magnified by a thousand -- depression thick in the air, attempts to navigate any aspect of one's life systematically quashed, shame heaped upon any nonconformist behavior.
