Fargo Let's see if we can track the allegory here — or if there's much of an allegory to track.
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In his version of The Allegory of the Cave, Greek artist and photographer Yiannis Biliris takes Plato's allegory for a spin.
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"It's an allegory for the modern black experience," says Adeyemi.
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And then the movie abandons its attempts at allegory altogether.
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But this allegory explains the current plight of legacy media.
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Or maybe it's just the perfect allegory for our time.
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Satire, allegory, minstrelsy and speculative fiction all come into it.
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Obviously, all of this is rife with contemporary political allegory.
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Does every movie have to be a political allegory now?
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What we're saying is that the Jesus story is an allegory.
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Scopes trial, recast as an allegory about McCarthyism and anti-Communist
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An allegory requires a meaning that the viewer needs to construct.
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But Santa Clarita Diet has buttressed its allegory with open politics.
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This is more allegory than I can handle right now. pic.twitter.
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And plenty of viewers argue it's a faith-filled religious allegory.
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The movie at this point transitions into a broad political allegory.
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Art becomes allegory for the problem of identity in Hadley's hands.
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Slowdive became an unfortunate allegory for the savagery of 90s tastemakers.
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These tales often used the creature as an allegory for morality.
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Black Mirror, on the other hand, is entirely devoid of allegory.
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Like Keaton's acrobatic survival skills, the bull's very physiology becomes allegory.
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The most popular theories suggest: - It's actually just a biblical allegory!
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I was into #LukeCage which played like a modern Syfy allegory.
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Fable and allegory curl themselves like creepers around our hero's feet.
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It was a timeless allegory of freedom, ethics and human nature.
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Like them, he uses the intimate as allegory for the national.
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As with Dante, Danh Vo offers a kind of hopeful allegory.
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David Hartman "Mother!" has beautiful cinematography and may pretend to intellectual high-minded allegory, but in reality the repetitive theme of creation and destruction plays out more like "Groundhog Day" in hell than a biblical allegory.
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District 9 existed because it was an allegory directly connected to apartheid.
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Aronofsky told the Times that it was an allegory for climate change.
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I feel like magical girls are a really good allegory for that.
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Some just think it's an allegory for the whole swamp draining thing.
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It also extends to the Christ allegory in the Chronicles of Narnia.
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The story is once again intertwined with literary epics and grand allegory.
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Here's how their pro-democracy allegory might play out in Season 8.
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Stairs have always been an allegory for reaching something greater than us.
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Indeed, they learn to question and distrust allegory as the tale progresses.
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Like Mr. Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan," the film doubles as an allegory about Russia.
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" Most of all, Edmund Spenser's epic, 16th-century allegory, "The Faerie Queene.
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"China Dream" is a sharper political allegory than Mr. Ma's earlier novels.
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Like other medieval tales, "Game of Thrones" is not a precise allegory.
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Lowell's earliest poems give us local and domestic tableaux, electrified by allegory.
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Some believe Mr. Ayah's prophecies are literal, others believe they are allegory.
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And the allegory of Gilead clearly builds on the world we inhabit.
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They highlight the importance of narrative storytelling and allegory in his work.
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Social media provides the highway straight back to Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
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"Insecurity #14503 Love" (1943-46) is even more elusive as an erotic allegory.
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That's not an allegory — it's a form of misogyny that's increasingly familiar online.
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If that's not the perfect allegory for 2017, we don't know what is.
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" He says, "Thompson's' paintings were more allegory of blue, yellow, and red people.
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And there's a faction who sees it as a fairly thin Catholic allegory.
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The turn away from reality in the movie is in itself an allegory.
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His physical decline and reclusive death become an allegory for the entire culture.
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Ancient and opaque, like an allegory that suggests we sacrifice our most beloved.
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It's a political allegory, a form that has lately saturated New York theater.
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The actress Jennifer Lawrence, above center, called it an allegory for climate change.
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It would certainly be easy to read the film as an ecological allegory.
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But this Concrete Temple Theater production offers an allegory more ecological than political.
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Some scholars are skeptical that Baum set out to write a populist allegory.
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And if you sense an allegory there, it might just cheer you up.
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Angelo's biography feels like both a plausibly factual chronicle and a fantastical allegory.
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In this way, "The Garden" sits as an allegory of closeness and belonging.
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Although the title gestures at religious allegory, it's religious allegory as filtered through the history of the novel (Simón is devoted to Don Quixote, and the prevalence of Russian names suggests you should dig out your Dostoyevsky) and through Platonic philosophy.
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Gizmodo: What does Plato's Allegory of the Cave have to do with eyeless fish?
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Magik, Colossus's little sister, died from a virus that was an allegory for AIDS.
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He may be becoming Team Midnight, and this is all allegory for racism right?
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If the supporting statues symbolize their respective continents, what was the allegory being suggested?
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In Tàpies's political works, like the Assassins, symbolism and allegory are used almost interchangeably.
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He's made this an allegory for why trauma might lead to devaluing one's self.
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So, I don't know if it's a statement as much as it's an allegory.
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The action-packed allegory is a blend of conspiracy theories, Egyptology and street smarts.
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It's about the love of God through the allegory of a bride and groom.
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Because beneath every monstrous allegory is the story of a very human, marginalized experience.
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Battlestar Galactica is a forceful allegory about the ills of the United States government.
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And she also recommends watching Zootopia because of its poignant allegory of modern life.
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In Plato's allegory, three people have been chained up from birth in a cave.
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Do we neatly wrap up these discussions through allegory, statistics, and in-house wokeness?
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The shorts are also an allegory for modern existence, and they are being crowdfunded.
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The historical allegory is neat, and obviousness isn't a flaw in a protest movie.
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This photo serves as an allegory for the current and future state of our oceans.
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Sean Penn's debut novel, out in April, is apparently going to be a loaded allegory.
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One redditor thinks Game of Thrones is one long allegory about the destruction of monarchy.
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McKean's exploration of allegory and skewed storylines resonates strongly with the work of Pierre Huyghe.
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Some exhibition participants go to great lengths to transform this visible "racial hierarchy" into allegory.
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A thrilling allegory set on the precipice of an increasingly dark stretch of modern history.
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They're like, 'Oh Matilda had magic powers.' and I'm like, 'guys it was an allegory.
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But the allegory is clearest in All-Star Superman, which is my favorite Superman yarn.
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It is an allegory of life as a not endless game that cannot be won.
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Tom Perrotta never intended his novel The Leftovers to be an allegory for climate change.
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In Neill Blomkamp's science fiction allegory, shipwrecked aliens exist on Earth as poorly treated refugees.
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My fellow members and I were treated to one metaphor, adage and allegory after another.
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It's a beautiful scene, and a characteristic one in a book constantly reaching for allegory.
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Both movies become tragedies, but Bong's feels like an allegory where Loach's feels like activism.
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Nearly 10 years after the film's debut, its allegory remains relevant given the refugee crises.
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The allegory was not lost on me, nor was the intentional absurdity of the plot.
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Last year, Sivan released the song "Bloom," which was an extended allegory for anal sex.
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"I see it as some kind of allegory of the conditions of life," he said.
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In Vanity Fair, one critic explored whether it was an allegory for the Trump era.
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Refreshingly, the novel disregards the predilections of contemporary literary fiction and instead veers toward allegory.
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But madness is the trade-off, which becomes an allegory for where Germany is headed.
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Like most Netherlandish artists of his age, Rembrandt often imbued his paintings with biblical allegory.
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Even so, the media rumors that the film was a real-life allegory were inescapable.
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And all of this visual thematic filmmaking comes to a brilliant head in one scene — in which the professor, Quadri, suspecting that Marcello's visit has a darker purpose, jovially confronts him with an allegory of Marcello's own moral emptiness — the famous allegory of Plato's cave.
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The story is a powerful allegory about the experience that so many children of immigrants have.
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This myth is often read as an allegory for the changing of seasons in ancient Greece.
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Her 2014 novel Boy, Snow, Bird, reimagined Snow White as an allegory of race in America.
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Not every movie needs to be some timely allegory for the cultural challenges we face today.
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Anton Ginzburg constructs architecture into an allegory for modern thought in his newest performance piece, Turo.
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Metaphor and allegory allowed Nabrit to make his point in a powerful and more persuasive way.
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In the absence of dialogue, the director tells this story through light, color, texture, and allegory.
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This is a clear allegory for the Harrowing of Hell and the entire economy of salvation.
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For Dr. Unschuld, Chinese medicine is far more interesting as an allegory for China's mental state.
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In other words, there's no better allegory for what happens to Austin during South By Southwest.
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Zack Snyder's Superman has been the most visual example to the allegory of an almighty Christ.
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Aronofsky claims that the film is a biblical allegory, and there are hints of this throughout.
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To the Editor: David Brooks presents an allegory regarding what happens when good people say nothing.
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In a final touch of allegory, the yacht he can no longer afford is called Europa.
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The second idea is to turn "The Cured" into a sort of Irish Republican Army allegory.
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Roth, who died in 2018, insisted that he did not intend "Plot" as a political allegory.
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A road movie that opens into a political allegory, "3 Faces" is filled with unexpected turns.
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Joe Zamarelli It's funny to me the reviews that are so focused on the allegory aspect.
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If there is one thing I'm snobbish about, it is fiction that functions primarily as allegory.
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With the stark power of myth, this political allegory evolves into an argument for artistic freedom.
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Her majestic allure is a neo-platonic allegory of beauty, combining intellectual strength and aesthetic harmony.
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Many viewed the film as an allegory, although to what remains in dispute 60 years later.
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But Tigers Are Not Afraid doesn't play like a mystery so much as a poignant allegory.
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In later years, Kipling never discouraged readers from finding in the Jungle Books a political allegory.
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Kidman herself disrupts the film's decorum, much as she complicates the mechanical allegory of Lanthimos's film.
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It is a fable inside an allegory and its soundscape ranges across the history of Western music.
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In March, he walked it back a bit, saying that the series would merely be an allegory.
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In what looks like an allegory for the breakup of a tech company, Adrielle's queendom is shaky.
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The show drives hard into a deeper allegory about the cost of persecuting those we don't understand.
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Gothic horror is for digging into the hidden sexual deviance within us all, not for political allegory.
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The whole show is an elaborate allegory of social justice, and also being told by Mrs. Whiskerson.
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She allows a credible love story to peek out through the elaborate trappings of allegory and satire.
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But then there's the allegory fodder of The Matrix by the Wachowskis (now Lana and Lilly Wachowski).
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I don't do lit crit, but to me this book reads like an allegory for water rights.
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Plato wrote about this dilemma in his cave allegory, the Wachowskis perfected its execution in The Matrix.
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An allegory about authoritarianism, it eventually asks the invited actor to drink from a possibly poisoned goblet.
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While there are legitimate economic takes on the film — as an allegory for the one percent vs.
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The film's witch-hunt theme has been described as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
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The photos had a suspended quality that suggested allegory, or maybe court paintings of the 17th century.
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This sophisticated-looking film by Alejandro Landes is an allegory with little clarity about its subject matter.
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This inaugural offering from the Coop squeezes whimsy, character comedy and ecological allegory into one crowded play.
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By setting his production in the 1930s, Mr. Edelson plans to let the allegory speak for itself.
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Part horror, part allegory, the supernaturally tinged murder mystery asks: Where do we turn when logic fails?
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It's an environmental catastrophe, and at times an allegory for these rural lives and the modern world.
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Ishiguro's story was a quiet adventure, but also an allegory that dealt with the ethics of cloning.
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So, too would a Poussin-esque allegory treating the spread of coronavirus as a punishment from God.
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As I look at Lee's "Gulbi," it suddenly seems like an allegory of looking at a painting.
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Plato applies his allegory to politics, demonstrating how the truth is sacrificed in favor of political gain.
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In her solo show at Acme, Heather Rasmussen turns her own body into an allegory of desire.
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Invasión from Argentina is an allegory of life in '68, which was of course fraught with peril.
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"It's one big, beautiful allegory about the kinds of high-stakes mistakes decision-makers make," Gladwell says.
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But the creator, Ryan Murphy, has said that the show is an allegory for the 2016 presidential election.
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But most of the more dread-filled paintings succeed through Ferlinghetti's balance of free association and pointed allegory.
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Emilia Olsen uses the Death and the Maiden allegory as a provocative metaphor for artistic sustenance and renewal.
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Her early hit "Lucky" is an unsubtle allegory about a starlet named Lucky who dreams of escaping fame.
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So the throne was conveniently melted down by Drogon, who apparently has a keen dragon sense for allegory.
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It is not a didactic image; it is composed more like a Botticelli painting or a mannerist allegory.
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" He adds: "I think it's not far-fetched to say that t@gged is an allegory to that.
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It was also an allegory for modern television and the show's own anxieties about coming back to it.
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Kids works purely in symbols and tableaus, giving off a lot of Plato's Allegory of the Cave vibes.
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He soon departs for the unseen Grey Havens, which could be a allegory for Jesus's ascension to heaven.
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The X-Men, created at the height of the Civil Rights movement, proved a powerful allegory for equality.
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Colony is an explicit, straightforward occupation allegory, one whose "foreign" invaders only matter as a manifestation of oppression.
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As with its treatment of Homer, The OA both reverses and strangely expands upon parts of Plato's allegory.
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Appleyard's secret history and giving Miranda a clear motivation for fleeing, the show becomes a blazing feminist allegory.
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The HBO series used vampires as an allegory for the LGBTQ+ community and their movement for equal rights.
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But in the end the literal and symbolic levels of this ambitious allegory do not complement one another.
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It's less an allegory for spirituality and more for what I think it is to be a parent.
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He's written a complex allegory for the tribal cruelties in Iraq in the wake of the American invasion.
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I've advocated for more pessimistic games and I've pushed for more acceptance of allegory in our political games.
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Would it help if you knew that it's an allegory with enormous resonance in our politically stormy age?
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Shifting from whimsical comedy to light satire to lumpy allegory, it quickly strips its gears and stops cold.
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There's a famous scene from Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" that's basically an allegory of the Donald J. Trump story.
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Narrated by Farrokhzad with her own verses, the film portrays the colony as an allegory for Iranian society.
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Here, the technique is applied to an allegory of nearly suffocating self-seriousness, to much less powerful effect.
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Now he has also made it an allegory for our contemporary fears — a state that warrants further exploration.
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But considering there's never been a kaiju movie that's an allegory for destructive relationships, it might be downright revolutionary.
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Also, stay tuned for Paul Miller's excellent and enlightening sci-fi short story allegory for how Meltdown actually works.
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Readers dive in with specific fears — about technology, society, or the future — and find an allegory to validate them.
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It's a perfect allegory for the way private interests can corrupt institutions people rely on to keep them safe.
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Symbolism and allegory lay bare dynamics of aspiration and limitation, expectation and loss, belonging and alienation, truth, and illusion.
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As you may have guessed here, this is a mix of fantasy and science fiction and humor and allegory.
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The Biblical allegory, though, is just the foundation for a whole host of other themes that come into play.
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Instead, the rebooted Child's Play blatantly doesn't care about characterization, logic, allegory, or advancing the debate about "elevated" horror.
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Described as "half allegory, half creating a mythology, and half documentary," each episode offers twists, humor, and history lessons.
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Many fans extrapolated from what was an obvious allegory in the books that Remus himself was a queer character.
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It is powerful because it is both real and unreal, at once a vivid picture and a frozen allegory.
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To talk about Mr. Weiner is to deal in metaphor and allegory; his problems must always mean something else.
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Howard Jacobson published a satirical political allegory about a vain, vulgar prince that fell flat with critics and readers.
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But not even Mr. Demarcy-Mota's stylish interventions can make "State of Siege" anything more than a hollow allegory.
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What this "Avengers" proved itself to be is an allegory of the global elite — this is the Davos class.
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In Red: A Crayon's Story, a gender allegory, Red is a blue crayon with a red factory-assigned label.
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In itself it's everything from allegory to Bildungsroman to gothic horror delving into sci-fi, and so much more.
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But what I'm trying to reveal is a darker side of allegory and what it might reveal about us.
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At first playing like a straightforward horror game, Alan Wake slowly turned into an allegory of misbegotten game development.
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But it most directly feels like a heightened allegory to the experiences of enslaved black women in America's history.
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It also functions very well as an allegory for what it's like to grow up in a hyperpartisan society.
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" He went on, "It seems to me that Joe is an allegory for the history of our country, maybe.
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Mr. Kaplan disclosed for the first time the cost of Rembrandt's "The Unconscious Patient (An Allegory of Smell)" (1624).
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Much like "Election" from 1999, "The Politician" is a comic allegory for more grown-up forms of political theater.
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Whether this production is another connect-the-dots allegory hardly matters; "Hamlet" is political however you dress the courtiers.
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Much like "Election" from 1999, "The Politician" is a comic allegory for more grown-up forms of political theater.
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The "Allegory of Italy" (1628-29) symbolizes in human form the bounty of Italy and two of its rivers.
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Their cowl-like headdresses hint at Dante's spiritual drama, though the work never resolves into anything like an allegory.
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" The series title, Plato's Dogs, refers to the shadows projected on the walls in the philosopher's "Allegory of the Cave.
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The photos were shot by their collaborator on the project, Sandro, who directed and upcoming Allegory of the Cave film.
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X-Men, most famously, being an allegory (humans being afraid of mutants) for racial angst around the civil rights movement.
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It remains to be seen whether Westworld's robot allegory will contribute something meaningful to the movement to dismantle rape culture.
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The show also underscores the use of animals as allegory, prized within their cultures as models of virtue and strength.
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If that's not an allegory for the issues with Lara Croft as a feminist character, I don't know what is.
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Fahrenheit 451 is based on Ray Bradbury's novel of the same name, a dystopian allegory about the perils of censorship.
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She has that massive fight with Joyce, her mom, which a lot of people see as a "coming out" allegory.
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For us, this idea of woman as wicked is a crucial allegory to subvert and embrace in many ways paradoxically.
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Throughout the album, she expertly employs sonic and lyrical clutter as an allegory for the muddle of her own emotions.
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District 9 (2009) Nothing says, "Wow, I should be paying attention more!" like an alien invasion turned human rights allegory.
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In his allegory of the cave, Plato teaches that we cannot truly know things through the evidence of our senses.
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If it's a political allegory, the message is that both the state and its opposition tend to go to extremes.
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The vexing problem of how to balance allegory and realism is one that Tóibín seems to be uncomfortably aware of.
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Rupert Goold's skilful direction yields a richly textured allegory, leaving no tastefully-landscaped stone of the English national psyche unturned.
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So the game of football, England's most important cultural export these days, provides an allegory of the benefits of openness.
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When it came out, however, Children of Men was misunderstood as yet another straightforward allegory for the War on Terror.
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Yet the iconography, ritual, and allegory Catholicism has found its way into almost every piece of art I've ever made.
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There is also reason to doubt that the snake story is an allegory for St. Patrick's eradication of pagan religions.
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Titled "Un dîner en ville," or "A Dinner in Town," the immersive installation is a lurid allegory of consumer excess.
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An Ensemble Studio Theater series includes an allegory on American intervention and a sympathetic look at a woman in distress.
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Less "Hello, Kitty" and more "Erin Brockovich"-meets-"Zero Dark Thirty," the play becomes an allegory for American intervention abroad.
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Its conflicts have become part of our public discourse, and Westeros, its fictional kingdom, has become an allegory for America.
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One suggests that the whole thing is an allegory for child prostitution, with the bathhouse taking on more sinister undertones.
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While Mr. von Sternberg claimed the film was not a political allegory, in 1933 it was banned in Nazi Germany.
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The opera was an allegory about improving the African-American condition through education, but investors were not interested in it.
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And look, everyone knows that a suburban nuclear family is always a deceptively idyllic allegory for larger societal disquiet, right?
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Although it is a comic book, the writing carries Jemisin's wry tone, interest in power, and unapologetic use of allegory.
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Full of allusions to Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, Rafael Alberti, and the Bible, the book feels like an allegory without a key.
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In this way, it is a nature poem, but also an allegory for any idealized experience never to be attained.
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Christopher Shinn adapts Odon von Horvath's 1937 play, both a tense drama and a political allegory exploring guilt and responsibility.
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Christopher Shinn adapts Odon von Horvath's 28 play, both a tense drama and a political allegory exploring guilt and responsibility.
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Within this medium, the human skull resembles Plato's allegory of the cave: We imprison ourselves within flickering illusions and simulations.
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Hers is a sensibility well suited to a post-Victorian allegory peopled by restless ghosts and pervaded with a supernatural hush.
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The songs draw directly from our daily lives and we often use allegory in order to tell truths while protecting ourselves.
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Here, theme and language and allegory are paramount, and characters are dull devices employed to get us to the good stuff.
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Written as an allegory for life in occupied Paris, Camus's novel is not an up-close portrait of evil or domination.
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What I heard in my mind was, Man, there's an allegory for market capitalism here that really appeals to me politically.
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But I appreciate a show titled after a form of birth control, and one that uses satire and allegory at that.
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Director Denis Villeneuve didn't set out to create an allegory for this year's presidential election—but now it's a painful one.
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Equilibrium: An Allegory of Rebirth opens May 5th at The Lodge Gallery as part of Frieze Week in New York City.
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She went with "Al-ugh-ories," presumably because she finds it difficult to utter the word allegory with a straight face.
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But in 1902 Verne wrote a novel, Les Frères Kip, that reads very much like an allegory of the Dreyfus affair.
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This category included Amanda Seyfried, who dressed not as a Catholic but as a woman from a Botticelli allegory of spring.
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Philip Sidney, also a courtier-poet, adopted the language of tormented love as an allegory for his own frustrated career prospects.
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It's an Aesopian allegory, the monkey a symbol of greed, temptation and addiction — as in having a monkey on your back.
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Aronofsky's film, which he also wrote, is being hailed as a religious allegory, a psychological thriller, and much, much more. mother!
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Marika frames her life as an extension of a domestic scene that doubles as an allegory for the larger sociopolitical sphere.
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The film is a potent allegory: What do we pass on when we have no one to pass it on to?
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It's possible that Mr. Makowsky was reaching for a Lynchian sense of the uncanny (or more likely, overreaching for an allegory).
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"It's an allegory for the modern black experience through the lens of an epic African fantasy," she said in an interview.
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The plot of Abe's Oddysee, and to some extent its sequel Abe's Exoddus, is equal parts brilliant allegory and blundering fumble.
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But the allegory seems to have eluded many viewers, and Mr. Aronofsky and Ms. Lawrence disagreed about how much to reveal.
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I really wanted to make this kind of allegory about Mother Nature and our place and our connection to our home.
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"Cinders," in which a reform-school production of "Cinderella" becomes an allegory for totalitarianism, was among his most widely produced plays.
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Jews and Christians of any sophistication preferred not to dwell upon it or distanced themselves by treating it as an allegory.
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Wallace and Miller's unequal relationship reads as an allegory for the quiet humiliation that Miller suffered professionally as a young woman.
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Watch: Part horror, part allegory, HBO's supernaturally tinged, 10-episode murder mystery "The Outsider" asks where we turn when logic fails.
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It's hard to diagram the Kaweah story as an allegory of any contemporary ideology of good and evil, heroism and villainy.
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The form was strewn with pitfalls, among them a tendency to sermonize, a veering into allegory and a lack of plausibility.
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His first English-language film, "The Lobster," was by turns ghastly and hilarious, a cruel dystopian allegory of discipline and desire.
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In divorcing the human form from mythology and allegory, Rodin helped forward the argument that we could make our own dramas.
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Rather than a crumpled white flower à la Alba Villanueva (Ivonne Coll), Farouk uses a Coca-Cola bottle as a virginity allegory.
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The prejudice she faces could be read as an allegory for LGBT life, or living with a disability, or as a minority.
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Clio Barnard's "The Selfish Giant" (5003), set in post-industrial Bradford, is an allegory of sorts for the dangers of unfettered capitalism.
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Such allegory runs the risk of becoming laboured, and the play's overarching metaphor is made to do a lot of heavy lifting.
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It uses its seemingly surface-level story about country dances and true love to tell a much deeper allegory of America itself.
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Not content to limit her incisive examinations of society to fiction and allegory, Le Guin spoke and wrote frequently about contemporary politics.
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It was a very meta locked-room mystery with metaphysical significance that played out like a myth, an allegory, and a dream.
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In light of Trump's Mexican border-wall proposal, Matta-Clark's artistic holes have a gleam of renewed symbolism and allegory about them.
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The first few times superhero films were used as allegory to address post-9/11 concerns, it was a surprising, fresh turn.
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That has led to one of the best fan theories of the show, which is that it's an allegory for climate change.
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Allegory of the Five Obstinate Monsters, 1575–1618, Anon I look at a lot of historical work, more so than contemporary art.
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In order to translate findings to a public lacking a basic understanding of atmospheric chemistry, climatologists must resort to metaphor and allegory.
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We saw our own version of this allegory with the two Americas this week — one going backward, the other stepping into tomorrow.
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The work is a fitting allegory for the racial profiling and mass incarceration that continue to impact Black communities in American society.
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Orwell's 1945 classic Animal Farm is the great allegory about the dangers of revolutionary ideas being corrupted once the rebels take power.
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It's not even airtight to maintain, as scholars do, that the snake story is an allegory for St.Patrick's eradication of pagan religions.
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Cage's indestructible skin is a powerful allegory of racial injustice that still resonates today, decades after the character was debuted in 1972.
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And it became an allegory for the junta's rescue of Thai society from the difficult twilight of King Bhumibol's, the ninth, reign.
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In fiction, you'll find a debut story collection from Neel Patel and a political allegory from the great Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare.
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Narrative, allegory, and speech amass in these lines, much like the colors, textures, and objects that accumulate in Banerjee's installations and sculptures.
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A stylized allegory, the opera meditates on the wonder, struggle and ephemeral nature of the creative process, of finding one's own voice.
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Maybe it was a harbinger, an unheeded political signal amid the pop-cultural noise, a pre-emptive allegory of battles to come.
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There is easy symbolism to be had in that contrast, but Adams is thankfully less interested in allegory than in cutting satire.
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For me, it's an amazing genre to explore themes and allegory without being too on-the-nose, kind of like sci-fi.
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But Horvath's brand of social critique and political allegory — now enjoying a revival in Europe — feels overwhelmed here by the physical production.
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"The allegory is that we really started working on the show in earnest around the time the election was happening," Harberts said.
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In his design, Mr. Koons included a likeness of Plato and a rendering of the allegory of the cave (from Plato's "Republic").
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One of the biggest pleasures of the dystopian allegory is that we'd all like to believe that our national nightmares can end.
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The past and present are a terrifying blur in "Transit," a brilliant allegory set in France that opens amid wailing police sirens.
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That year, home invasion movies were popular, a genre that's often aimed at white Americans and can be an allegory for xenophobia.
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It works as a dual allegory for the painful process of growing up female and for the plight of immigrants and refugees.
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It is the Big Bang, the Allegory of Divine Providence, Jasper Johns' White Flag, and what Herzog calls "ecstatic truth," all at once.
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I fear that Gold may have been deliberately trying to create and mine all this confusion for the purpose of more Trumpian allegory.
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Her new work, Collecting Injustices, Unnecessary Suffering, debuts at the Whitney this weekend, tackling parenting and socialization with her trademark humor and allegory.
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A fantastic allegory of "Ignorance, Envy and Jealousy" (1837) by the British Royal Academy painter James Ward is at French & Company (Booth 312).
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The allegory of clashing species gets its most politically pungent showcase in Discovery's season-long, serialized storyline: the Federation's war with the Klingons.
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The work was intended to be an allegory for the human fight for dominance, but it provoked an outcry from animal-rights activists.
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This is followed by "Allegory," in which the audience sits in an open square space and turns 360 degrees to see childhood flashbacks.
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"Black Museum" goes for broad allegory about punitive justice, and while it touches on larger issues like racism, its jabs don't feel timely.
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It's an allegory for her experiences in Wayne's bunker and is meant to teach young boys about the "little monster" inside of them.
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A lost child, witchy characters and bloody scenes edge LaValle's tale closer to horror than allegory, for the kind of frights you love.
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I judged this ambitious game, which asks to be seen as an allegory for real-world oppression, on its understanding of those issues.
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The BuzzFeed video goes well beyond the diabetes allegory in Hemmig's video and uses more kinds of physical ailments to make its point.
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With a mysterious depth, both visual and narrational, like Lynchian gestures without the heavy-handed surrealism, his photographs offer allegory, metaphor, and melancholy.
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Now they are joined by the allegory of sight, on loan from Museum De Lakenhal in the Dutch city of Leiden, Rembrandt's hometown.
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It's a fairly straightforward allegory of the fight between Abigail and Sarah, but it also gives Hoult a chance for some great lines.
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A slim chapter deals with his "Allegory of the Cave," a fanciful story in which Plato deals with knowing reality, among other things.
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But the imagery and shifting subtleties in the lyrics suggest a political allegory, and the song is often understood as a veiled critique.
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To really understand Birth is most often a matter of vantage point—at what angle do you enter Griffith's difficult allegory of hate?
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As far as this version goes, I think it is a really powerful racial allegory that might seem very surprising coming from Dahl.
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An onlooker watches from a mock-up of a low-cost Brooklyn housing unit is apartment, summing up video as one big allegory.
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The best works, however, unpack some of those concepts through allegory and testimonials, and reward not just audience attention, but also audience participation.
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This double layer of meaning keeps the book from ever tripping over itself and falling into vague allegory, though it constantly threatens to.
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But building a rocket is also a clear allegory for making art, for creating something so extraordinary that the whole world must notice.
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Never has a man been so burdened since Christian, the narrator of John Bunyan's allegory "The Pilgrim's Progress," began his own arduous journey.
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One is a speakeasy called Allegory tucked away off the lobby behind two unmarked black doors with an extensive menu of craft cocktails.
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The language of Iran is 'Farsi' which is closed, ambiguous, embedded with allegory and metaphor and mixed with political, religious, and social hints.
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There's the apolitical story in which all that matters are the games with language and allegory and none of the characters are important.
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The internal logic of a biblical allegory for religion that's also a firsthand account of climate change from nature's perspective just doesn't track.
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Kelley and McCarthy were attracted to the allegory of Heidi's story: an innocent girl living with an old man she wants to please.
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Through the allegory of the multiverse, Zapata reinterprets the extent and toll of exile on Earth, the gulf between universes of human experience.
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Surely even Lovecraft, although he decried the "popularity of ol' Doc Sigmund," must have glimpsed the allegory of sexual longing in the story.
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An ostensible allegory — notices from the state appear onscreen, train cars speed ominously into the night — it is known for resisting comprehensive interpretation.
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Societal ignorance is a never-ceasing historical habit, which has spread into our literature through the escapist genre, often infused with political allegory.
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In the current worldwide #MeToo moment, "The Bride" can be likened to an allegory on patriarchy, dominance and power, personal agency and yielding.
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He happily told Nico that this was his first kiss with a man, using his transition to orthopedics as an allegory for his switch.
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The chupacabra becomes an allegory for the paranoia manifested in things like border patrol, for example, who roam the desert with night vision goggles.
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Although their styles diverged — Titian depicted the moment of attack and Rembrandt her ensuing suicide — they both turned rape into "pure allegory," Princenthal writes.
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It was a condemnation of culture vulturing and an allegory on just how dangerous liberal racism — and its theoretical wife, white feminism — can be.
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Her short story, "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love," is a surreal, jarring allegory for dealing with identity-motivated hate crime and violence.
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The nuance this category provides to the allegory both supports its credibility and promotes Mr. Grant's mission of encouraging more people to become givers.
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There's not a game out there that couldn't be improved by the inclusion of everyone's favorite dead-eyed anthropomorphic train and/or capitalist allegory.
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We might think about this as corporate overreach, or we might turn this into an allegory about veterans who return from war fundamentally changed.
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It's indicated that torturing men is a form of entertainment for these witches, which the show conveys as an allegory for dismantling the patriarchy.
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Reducing Lenny to a Catholic Trump strips his storyline of its most interesting nuances and reduces the show to a flat and unoriginal allegory.
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The novel assigned in high school was William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," which I found a little too thick with martyrdom and allegory.
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"[I]t is a vast diminution of Wagner's drama to pin such a thin Marxist allegory to its extraordinary and believable characters," he sniffs.
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It also works as an art-world allegory, an almost comically melodramatic indictment of everyone involved — deluded artist, reptilian dealer and callous public alike.
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It's not an allegory for or critique of religions that preach an afterlife and their effect on the way adherents experience the present life.
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A mixture of paintings from Eisenman's oeuvre, rather than attempting a comprehensive overview, the exhibition hones in on her usage of allegory and symbols.
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Where some of its contemporaries circumvent or make digestible the realities of loss and struggle, Lone Survivor, albeit through allegory, puts them on-screen.
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I made that an allegory for how we're choosing death, rather than life, as a people, and we just want a comfortable way out.
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A few months before he died, in 2018, Roth told me in an interview that he never intended his book as a political allegory.
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The movie, which was directed by Brian Henson, Jim Henson's son, is a comedy that's maybe also a race allegory between puppets and humans?
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The "Ring" has been interpreted as an allegory about the relationship between power and love, and the difficulty of obtaining both in one's life.
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The figure becomes a motif in an abstract-expressionist scheme, a character in an allegory, an illustration of key points on the human anatomy.
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Yet Kokoschka's radical derangements, of his own body as well as those of his sitters, are often infused with allegory and marked by theatricality.
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"A grim and uncompromising allegory of the waning of Tibetan traditions and values," the critic Jeanette Catsoulis wrote in a New York Times review.
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Your next project may be your most ambitious: an opera based on the "Romance of the Rose," a medieval allegory of love and reason.
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Mary Shelley's enduring novel has made the rare journey from literature into common myth, becoming an allegory for everything from gender equality to racism.
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And this year, when he learned the students in his Contemporary Civilization class would be reading Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," he was ready.
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Alas, Roberts makes an unproductively wan center for this feminist allegory, which could have used more of the oomph that Awkwafina and Macdonald bring.
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If anything, I feel like Joe is an allegory for white supremacy, and the way governments or anybody in power behaves in that construct.
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This allegory about Chauncey Gardener — a childlike cipher who becomes a shamanic adviser to Washington's elite — feels exceptionally well suited for the present moment.
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" George Orwell's famous allegory in Animal Farm concluded with the warning that "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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He directed his readers' attention to acts of horror with a precise command of language and an uncontainable appetite for allegory, especially about whiteness.
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But such suggestions were likely to enrage victims' groups, who have grown tired of abstract responses, filled with biblical allegory, and demand concrete solutions.
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James Baldwin famously criticized the novel for painting Bigger with too-broad strokes, using him as a blanket allegory rather than a living, breathing protagonist.
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Poets, filmmakers, authors and musicians alike throughout history have used the open road as an allegory for self-exploration, growth and a sense of adventure.
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Do they really just sit there trying to come up with a somewhat-obscure-but-still-kind-of-accessible allegory to encapsulate the overarching themes?
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Dr. Strangelove was quickly reinterpreted as an allegory for the Goldwater campaign, especially after Goldwater advocated the use of low-yield nuclear bombs in Vietnam.
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Others felt it celebrated the bravery of a woman choosing the manner of her own death, and saw in it an allegory for human dignity.
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As an allegory for the fallout from the ad itself, the line: "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything", contains a double entendre.
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Many of the Victorian readers who drove the book's initial popularity were drawn by its amenability to Biblical allegory, more than any perceived political message.
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Blair and W Bush's speeches appear as flashbacks, creating "an allegory of a bigger a story" on the war on terror, director Ashish Ghadiali says.
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An art historian is explaining that the painting is typically perceived as an allegory for the five senses: it's about experiencing everything—even the pain.
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The film doesn't spend much time on allegory or symbolism, but it's not hard to find a larger metaphor about living under any oppressive force.
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Some readers have detected an allegory for the Chinese state���a people imprisoned by their mindset, cocooned in a bubble that must eventually be pierced.
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From the refreshing Mae Whitman teen comedy The Duff to last year's horror allegory It Follows, here's a look at the month's new Showtime fare.
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Plant the flag, and make an allegory about what has happened with market capitalism and why this level of equity has become the American way.
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The Bright trailer looks like End of Watch and Suicide Squad had a baby, and that baby grew up to be a magical race allegory.
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Set in Pune, India, 75 miles outside of Mumbai, the zine is an allegory about human friendship told through the life cycle of t-shirts.
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In Plato's allegory, a group of prisoners are chained facing a wall, and only ever exposed to shadows, and not the objects that cast them.
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Her "Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting" (1638–9) was a key highlight of the blockbuster Royal Academy exhibition Charles I: King and Collector.
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It's a fitting allegory for a country divided after America selected Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States.
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If you get swept up in the debt-creating, emotion-annihilating, discipline-generating systems that Art Sqool is an allegory for, you're not a fool.
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You don't need horror and science fiction to dabble in allegory, but it goes without saying that they're at their most potent when they do.
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For example: I wrote [the award-winning porn] The Turning as an allegory of homophobia, and the social stigma that being gay is an illness.
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While an allegory about the Soviet Union, Orwell's book is far from the "communism sucks and capitalism rules!" book that many high-school students think.
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Maybe filmmakers still linger in the Rawda Cafe; but the truth about Syria now lies beyond the reach of satire, of allegory, of fiction itself.
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The script works as an allegory for America's ongoing struggle against racism, and on the pull of paternity and tribe in the face of oppression.
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I got what I came for, and this is certainly not the first horror film to serve a sloppy social allegory along with its chills.
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"Am Königsweg" is neither a polemic nor a historical dramatization but an of-the-moment allegory for our deeply troubling political, social and economic reality.
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As with his previous horror thriller, "Get Out," an allegory for black fears in a white world, Peele seems to have ethical considerations in mind.
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Yet all the cast's resourcefulness isn't enough to keep confusion and tedium at bay as this labored allegory unfolds in a painstaking parade of equivalencies.
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It's not good for the experience of reading any novel to think that what you're reading about are not human beings but symbols or allegory.
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It struck me as an unsubtle allegory for Ferrante's anonymity, and it was hard to shake the sense that children were not its target audience.
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But it proves to be an allegory for what Paul Jr. is about to endure: being crucified by his father while working for Getty Oil.
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By the time Fernando encounters a mute shepherd named Jesus, you may have figured out that "The Ornithologist" is an allegory, or something like it.
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"Goto, Isle of Love" (1969), his first live-action feature (newly out on disc from Olive Films), was taken by some as a political allegory.
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Critics are hailing Weathering With You as the perfect movie for 2020, a saccharine, candy pop love story that's also an allegory for environmental collapse.
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That's a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it.
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I thought that was allegory for a place so complete unto itself that it was suspended in the midst of something other than ordinary dirt.
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Within the company there's an allegory of a divided Germany and the painful process of reunification; echoes of fascism, culpability and healing rendered in metaphor.
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Their star-crossed love is one of many storylines highlighting a class and racial divide, which serve as a clear allegory for modern social dynamics.
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Could children watching at home ask for lessons more suitable, skills more pertinent, or an allegory more fitting for the world facing them in 2017?
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In both, Valentin successfully applied his naturalistic mode to two of the most intractably artificial painting types of the period, the allegory and the altarpiece.
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Maybe it all turns out to be a complicated allegory about how different cultures can live alongside each other without trying to kill each other.
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A blunt allegory for the seething libidinal violence that has become synonymous with fraternities, the student paints a murder of crows circling above his sexualized subject.
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If the first film was an allegory for learning how to accept grief, its sequel questions what it takes to finally move on and start again.
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In a way, in "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton wrote an allegory of this very process: of the way stories acquire new meanings over time.
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A black man, Lafala, loses his legs as a result of his white captors' cruelty, then, in a striking allegory for reparations, receives a compensatory windfall.
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Thus this becomes not only the usual allegory for millennials trying to cope with a changing world, but also an excoriation of Y.A.'s traditional shallowness.
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Click here to view original GIFWatch the cityscape of Hong Kong mirror itself in this short time lapse, The Allegory of the Cave by Visual Suspect.
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To underscore how juvenile the government gridlock seems, a YouTube channel specializing in children's content featured a cartoon allegory of the crisis called "Niñolandia," or Kiddieland.
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Plato's allegory has haunted us for two and a half millennia and The OA two and a half weeks, but they speak to one another nonetheless.
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These are separated by two metal partitions of the sort you see between men's room urinals, making the whole thing a suave allegory of male privilege.
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The twists and turns of the movie (which is a satirical comedy, drama, thriller, and social allegory all at once) make watching "Parasite" a pure joy.
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There's the climate change-cum-hubris allegory going on, while the Maisie scenes draw upon an older audience's memory of watching Jurassic Park themselves, as kids.
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It's meant as a kind of allegory, linking the ever evolving frontiers of gender and sexuality to these gatherings that took place on a literal frontier.
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Its portrayal of the plot to assassinate a despotic emperor as an allegory for our current political climate didn't seem to raise many eyebrows at first.
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That space between the imagination and reality is where he likes to operate, in the realm of allegory, myth and the stories our subconscious tells us.
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In an interview, she discussed how her new version of the story blends timeless allegory with modern references — including pussy hats and a Trump-like character.
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Not even as allegory could the fantastical adventure that swallows the second act sustain my interest; its concerns are sketchy, as thin as comic book stock.
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In keeping with Eastern European theatrical tradition, "The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald" (produced with New Hampshire's Theater Kapow) waffles between satire and allegory.
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Young's greatest skills are subtlety and silence, relating truths through allegory and meaningful detail, so her missteps often come when she reaches too far for insight.
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But the service was also a prolonged allegory that served to highlight McCain's character, and by comparison, to condemn the politics of personality of Donald Trump.
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Igor Stravinsky, who wrote the music in 1928, saw it as an allegory of the artist's destiny, an idea that has resonated with choreographers ever since.
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"The Treasure" is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania's precarious place at the margins of the European Union.
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Standing in front of Lorenzetti's "Allegory of Good Government" (1338) at the Palazzo Pubblico with his wife Diana, Matar ruminates on how she sees the work.
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The "armor" was off; he'd managed, in both life and work, to embrace private detail, private experience, and to express them without the abstraction of allegory.
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Metaphorically, the allegory of the modern home invasion film is all about the sanctity and deceptive sovereignty of America as a nation state, powerful and impenetrable.
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They are thought experiments in which the artist attempts to confront his own dislike for allegory by representing the Holocaust in the most literal-minded way.
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YHL: Others have hit the high points, but there is a real sense in which The Vela is an allegory for present-day political and social ills.
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This would be a bog-standard dystopian premise, except that the film uses it to set up a weirdly specific, completely absurd allegory for American standardized testing.
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This work is by the Japanese director Toshiki Okada and uses baseball as an allegory to dissect the relationship among Japan, South Korea and the United States.
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"The Silver Surfer is also a private allegory for us about having a baby," he tells me quietly and openly, referring to the image of the ultrasound.
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After the scene was caught on video and went viral, it became the allegory of the campaign trail, finding its way into the center of campaign pitches.
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One allegory I see here is when companies hire people to help fix structural problems or improve diversity, but then do not empower them to effect change.
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Part sports drama, part showbiz satire, part birth-of-the-modern-woman allegory — all heartbreaking glitter-blasted humanity — Netflix's GLOW is unlike any show I've ever seen.
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We might regard the installation as an allegory of historical understanding and misapprehension, the way our fitful perception of historical fact is filtered through a glass, darkly.
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In "Icons of May '21968", an exhibition at the National Library of France, viewers are asked to look at the photograph as something other than an allegory.
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Such beautiful allegory entwines this twisted, surreal collection, giving us haunting stories that may cause you to question your daily habits and routines—even your eating patterns.
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""Plus, some art historians think Goya painted his piece as an allegory for the Spanish autocracy devouring its citizens, particularly the younger generation," she went on. "Mr.
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I think horror, unlike other genres, has the potential for more direct allegory—where internal demons can become actual demons that you can see and deal with.
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Thanks to the straightforward nature of much of the video's allegory, it's easy to pick up on many of the social messages even if you're not British.
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The 1956 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" used a comparable premise — alien invaders replace humans with emotionless replicas — as an allegory of Cold War-era groupthink.
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Participants want to stress their patriotism, but the image of masses wearing a soccer team uniform also works as an allegory of sorts for the country's situation.
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Inspired in part by the paintings of Magritte and set to recorded music by Kurt Weill, "Stealing Time" is a surreal, semi-comic allegory of modern life.
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There are two questions about Gavriel Savit's splendid debut novel that are sure to be asked repeatedly: Is it an allegory, and at whom is it aimed?
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In Acts of Appearance, masks play a dramatic role, at times harnessing the revelatory power of allegory as a device to evidence social tensions and systemic failure.
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"The poles are rich with allegory and ceremony," said Henry F. Skerritt, curator of the indigenous arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe and the exhibition's organizer.
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Ms. Holup also used nature as an allegory for "Common Ground," a bas-relief mural at a Northern Boulevard underpass of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in Queens.
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Told through the allegory of psychic connection, it is a show about the internet and airplanes and global communities unbounded by geography and even language and culture.
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GUY TREBAY "Desperately Seeking Susan" is the best Madonna movie, perhaps because it serves as an allegory for the many women who styled themselves in Madonna's image.
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Because if you take the Potterverse seriously as an allegory for ours, the most noteworthy divide isn't between the good multicultural wizards and the bad racist ones.
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It's a Turducken of a structure: it's a literary novel inside a spy thriller that's inside a love story — a love story that's tucked inside an allegory.
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I think the reason this one keeps coming back is that it is an allegory, so it has those deep biblical roots and kind of archaeological references.
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It also reads like an allegory of the powerful and the powerless, with a red Boschian devil in a lower corner devouring, one hopes, the evil ones.
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A musical adaptation of the revered Tim Burton film, and maybe also a chilling allegory about the perils of remodeling, this antic ghost story arrives on Broadway.
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But it is also an allegory of what Zacharia believed in the past, when he wanted to join ISIS, that he was answering to a higher calling.
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His version lays bare the violence of the original (arguably pretty bare already) while reframing it as a political allegory of how wealthier nations exploit impoverished ones.
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It is an apt allegory for the precariousness of those Americans, especially people of color and women, who manage to rise above their origins and momentarily succeed.
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Installed in the museum's topmost tower gallery, it's surrounded by swimming crocodiles, making it a darkly comic allegory of a world on the brink of — or after — apocalypse.
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Most recently the duo released "Heaven", a visual allegory for utopia, "to show that paradise is all the colours of skin together, in nature, having contemplation" explains Jonathan.
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As many have come to recognize in a post-Civil Rights world, the X-Men were an allegory for the racial tensions and widespread discrimination at the time.
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Lost, at first, seemed like it would be more a tale of teamwork and survival than a sweeping mythological allegory, involving time travel, miracle cures, and polar bears.
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If you concentrate on "quality" films, and strip away tongue-in-cheek (Bond), propaganda ("Green Berets"), crass ("Rambo"), and allegory ("The Alamo"), you find a more-balanced judgment.
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Oblique but not willfully cryptic, Unearth might be an open-ended allegory for our time, or an archetypal tale of banishment and return, or maybe pure escapist reverie.
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Like a lot of great kids movies, there's an allegory under the poop jokes, but it still works on the very basic level of being delightful and simple.
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The user thinks that Westworld is an allegory for the Biblical story of Genesis and John Milton's Paradise Lost, with Dolores playing the role of Adam or Eve.
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Sun's revelry is set to "The Sharing Song" by Jack Johnson, a hollered allegory for the fact that these sensates are sharing an awful lot with each other.
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Last week we looked at Twitter users who are convinced that the children's story Goldilocks and the three bears is actually an allegory for gentrification and white privilege.
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The military is an allegory for American society itself; when transgender troops are told they cannot serve, trans citizens also hear the message that we're not welcome here.
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GIFs like this one, in which one or more "characters" are labeled in a way that transforms the action of a GIF into allegory, are common meme parlance.
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As it happens, this movie is an expansion of Ms. Pourriat's 2010 short film, "Oppressed Majority," which was a punchier, and not particularly comedic, allegory of sexual assault.
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What I was most conscious of was the hard-working ingenuity of a director and his creative team trying to elicit sparks from a cumbersome, ice-cold allegory.
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After the couple experience a schism, they each seek solace in drug-fueled liaisons with others, and the rationale for sci-fi allegory is pretty much dispensed with.
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It's an immersive, fantastical adventure, but also a compelling allegory for the role of individual resistance in the face of seemingly intractable planet-sized problems like climate change.
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The final shot, taking place some time after the main action, seeks a character rather than follows one and is shamelessly on the nose in the allegory department.
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Hailed as an allegory, a comic strip, and a pure biography, Maus encompasses all literary realms… But what if the ambiguous nature of this piece's identity was intentional?
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Simon: The Allegory is all about perception, right—prisoners stuck in a cave only see shadows projected on a wall, so what they think is reality is a distortion.
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Not only was it created by two trans women, it's rich with queer themes and can (and has) been read as an allegory for the trans coming out experience.
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What could have been an overwrought, didactic allegory about the prison industrial complex is instead a subtle, powerful portrayal of ordinary Americans and the human costs of unjust systems.
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The Outer Worlds portrays corporate malfeasance and exploitation of workers, but its setting is so heightened that you can as easily reject it as an allegory for late capitalism.
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It is even possible to read his book, of real-life grief and recovery, as a political allegory for the erasing of the Trump blot that Democrats dream of.
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As Buffy The Vampire Slayer did before, The Chilling Adventures is a supernatural allegory for the obstacles a young woman faces as she begins to claim her own power.
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Thus, it makes sense that Discovery would be darker, even, than Deep Space Nine or the misbegotten Enterprise (which was kinda sorta a War on Terror allegory at times).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Since it was first performed 400 years ago, William Shakespeare's Macbeth has been an enduring allegory of boundless political ambition spiraling into tyranny.
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Mr Lee is a lawyer who argues for human self-rule and speaks fluent Hegemonese ("Invasion" is, of course, an allegory, with humans representing Singaporeans and Hegemons the British).
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"It was a learning experience in a lot of deep ways," she says of creating Skin & Earth, which also serves as an allegory for her struggle with mental illness.
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Related: Animated TV Shows Turn Into Static, Coded Canvases Casey Reas' Newest Art Is A Coded, Projected 'Allegory Of The Cave' Casey Reas Launches New Exhibition At Bitforms Gallery
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This 17th-century Dutch master's allegory of smell, "The Unconscious Patient," was discovered only a year ago at an auction in New Jersey, after being found in someone's basement.
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The exhibition, which is organized chronologically, looks at how the artist's work evolved throughout his career, and how he turned in his later years toward allegory and myth. grandpalais.
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"The book is an allegory for the inexplicable problems of every company (and how to approach them), whether you realize you are a technology company or not," Schutzbank said.
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A man cast as a pensive Joseph in a 1624-26 painting re-emerges later in a grand allegory, sporting a longer beard and a rug of chest hair.
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The images are not direct representations of the victims, but rather an "allegory of the issue," said Audrey Decker, co-founder of SAM along with her husband Thibault Decker.
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Like many other films about aliens — mostly notably and directly, Neill Blomkamp's Apartheid allegory District 9 — Denis Villeneuve's Arrival uses the oncoming aliens as a metaphor for foreign immigrants.
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It reads as a Biblical allegory, and as a gender-critiquing psychodrama, but also as a sort of meditation on every movie about those subjects that has gone before.
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In Bertolt Brecht's allegory of Hitler's ascent, written in 1941 and first performed in 1958, Esparza plays a nineteen-thirties Chicago gangster who wrests control of the cauliflower trade.
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The more I discuss the dream, the more I realize the themes of misdirection and impermanence are pretty much a straight-up allegory with regards to my current life.
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Sean Illing Most people think of Freud when they think about the ego, but I wonder if you think Plato's charioteer allegory is a better model of the psyche?
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It is strikingly similar to how they talk about immigrants, turning the wolf into an object of terror and the discussion into an allegory for the nation's culture wars.
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A study of a symbol, it is an allegory of imperial folly and decline that reads like a historical daydream: not about a city, but something almost as big.
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The problem, in "The Changeling," is that LaValle sometimes skywrites his main themes so that no one will miss them — he explains his own allegory, essentially, in real time.
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He has interwoven the plot's basic allegory with long recorded stretches of conversation (to which we listen in the dark) that suggest we are witnessing a dying man's dream.
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Directed by Kent Nicholson at the Sheen Center, this is an allegory in which Reeves is an Everyman — a 19-year-old mess with a lot to answer for.
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Through a series of satisfying, recurrent metaphors — repetitions of images, phrases, objects and dreams — Hay weaves her characters' stories closer, offering an allegory for the commonality of human experience.
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It is unclear if Ms. Woods intended this stunning film to be a brutal, brilliant allegory for women and film, but it's impossible not to see it as such.
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THE CRUCIBLE Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials, written in 212 as an allegory for McCarthyism, is sure to have some interesting reverberations in 22 America, too.
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Like such philosophically head-scratching aphorisms, these stories — part allegory, part myth, part magic realism, part Philip Marlowe, private eye — are sometimes confusing even to those who narrate them.
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The novels and show use systems of reproduction under chattel slavery and the Underground Railroad as an allegory to primarily focus on the treatment of middle-class white women.
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What begins as a painless chronicle of a young man trying to scrounge up rent money blossoms into a complex racial allegory about class and the ills of society.
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It sets up a beautiful allegory for later, when Ali hooks up with a masculine of center queer person who gently stops her as she tries to undress them.
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An airline ticket counter representative with a lot of questions is meant to evoke the Inquisition; the big city to which Linda eventually moves is, in the allegory, assimilation.
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In Don't Breathe, the entire idea of the home invasion as a xenophobic allegory is shot to hell, mainly because the horror is already deeply embedded inside the house.
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If you squint at its woefully confused metaphors, there might be an allegory in the monsters as a darkness that perhaps only people who've lived with depression, psychological disorders, etc.
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Unaware of the manga-style story that inspired the title, many listeners heard it as an allegory of that greatest of American epics, the African-American freedom struggle since slavery.
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The stunning defeat of then-House Majority Leader Cantor to a little-known primary challenger has become an allegory in Washington for incumbents who might otherwise brush off seeming longshots.
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The allegory of the big glass box suggests we should stay diligent in our observation and remain open to mind-blowing revelation and catharsis as this dark fantasy takes shape.
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It's unusual to see a poet write poetry with philosophical subtlety — the diametrical opposite of the Conceptual Poets who use allegory and trompe l'oeil effects to make a larger point.
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The GOP nominee uses the poem as an allegory for the immigration debate, arguing that America shouldn't let in immigrants it hasn't fully vetted because they may not be peaceful.
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The false-flag public health crisis, the tribal nationalism of the Kobayashis, and government suppression of scientists all suggest parallels with real-world politics, but allegory isn't the film's aim.
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The work has been interpreted as an allegory of Wood's sense of helplessness in resisting the temptations of the sophisticated but decadent lifestyle into which he was drawn in Paris.
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Even when the puppets' faces remain frozen, the dynamic movements (particularly of the crab referee) and droll commentary recontextualize the sport while celebrating its thrills — anthropomorphized but without easy allegory.
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But I found that—in spite of my firmly held disagreements with the church—the ritual, contemplation, and allegory of my faith continued to provide guidance and comfort to me.
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In many ways, the duo's progression from guitar-based rock to dance music, and then from pop to underground club, is an allegory for the tastes of a whole generation.
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Guillermo Heredia couldn't have known it, but his poor decision perfectly encapsulated the Mariners' 215 season, and just might be a perfect allegory for the future of the club, too.
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Aronofsky has been vocal about his passion for environmental work, so the allegory is pretty obvious: Lawrence's Mother is Mother Nature, and this film is about how we mistreat her.
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Mr. Frank appears more interested in the moral allegory mandated by the title, in which the frontier is a place of chaos where no god is looking out for anyone.
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It's been suggested that the "ice" in "Ice" translates to a junkie's relationship to her drug, yet the book is hardly reducible to this or any other form of allegory.
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When we discussed his allegory of the cave, the university president stood up and drew a picture of the cave and the men who lived their whole lives inside it.
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But one cannot help wishing it were less an operatic allegory of political principles and more a story, animated by fallible protagonists who are not entirely devoid of moral ambivalence.
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Yet for all that the book gestures at a kind of political allegory, it shies away from the capital-S Scene it seems to promise and tapers away into anticlimax.
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We spoke to Penn Badgley about the thirst around Joe, being maybe too good at playing a sociopath, and how his character might even be an allegory for white supremacy.
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And the way that Joe functions as an allegory of men in power throughout history is really consistent, so there are all kinds of people that I think of throughout.
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If "The Weapon Wizards" were a novel, it would be one written by Horatio Alger; if it were a biblical allegory, it would be the story of David and Goliath.
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Replete with scathing commentary on religion, class and cultural wars, Jesus Christ Superstar doubles as satirical allegory for the tensions between mainstream and countercultural politics of the '20153s and '70s.
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Singal, citing an apology from Zhao in which she said that the book had been an allegory for contemporary slavery, concluded his piece with a solemn shake of his head.
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And as much I enjoyed studying that form in Renaissance literature classes in college (I even liked "The Faerie Queene"), allegory in contemporary theater usually leaves me cold and queasy.
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The three-year-old comic book, from writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Valentine De Landro, has always been an irreverent, zippy, and at times sorrowful satire and intergalactic allegory.
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Instead, she uses the ghost rapes of Manitoba as a kind of allegory for the position in which women find themselves in the wake of #MeToo: Something awful has happened.
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As if that wasn't enough, the filmmaker and Jennifer Lawrence discussed at TIFF how the film is actually an allegory for climate change, and the way humanity has disregarded the planet.
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But it can also be seen as allegory: after all, how many artistic works can you think of that have been ostensibly ruined by the dirty deeds of the creators themselves?
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But the problem with inventing a supernatural race as an allegory for those sidelined in the real world is that you end up excluding the very people you want to include.
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A survivor themselves, Dakota describes trauma with a poetic allegory; they say that living with trauma is like being in an enclosed space with a rattlesnake, separated only by a gate.
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In particular, Thandie Newton's character Maeve, a "host" that played madame at the local Westworld brothel, enacted a storyline that might as well have been an allegory for the feminist revolution.
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Visual Suspect writes:Inspired by the Allegory of the Cave from Plato, till today's quantum physics and multi universes theories, a visual essay about perception and knowledge as reflection of our reality.
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The production, written by Pulitzer-finalist playwright Will Eno, is an anti-consumerist allegory filled with songs like "Advertising Ruins Everything," which bemoans contemporary evils like spam and targeted Instagram ads.
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For many transgender people, the Matrix is an obvious allegory for the decision to either transition and live one's truth, or remain hidden in a false identity that our culture created.
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A fictionalized World War II allegory, Valkyria Chronicles was about a plucky group of freedom fighters defending their resource-rich homeland from an invading empire as it spread across the continent.
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For example, ceilings such as the "Allegory of Divine Providence at Palazzo" Barberini in Rome or the Sala dei Giganti in Palazzo del Te, Mantua, employ a sotto in su technique.
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Mr. Fischl's works have rarely been politically overt, but a diptych called "A Visit To/A Visit From/The Island" (1983) is a great exception, a searing allegory of white guilt.
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Related: 'Nosferatu' Gets Re-Animated as an Allegory for the Immigration Crisis 5 Russian Doll Artists Creating Eerie, Hyperrealistic Handmade Toys The Newest Blue Crayon Is 200 Years in the Making
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You mention that you were influenced in particular by the "Myth of the Cave," an allegory in Plato's Republic about leaving the metaphorical shadows inside a cave for the light outside.
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For Looking Glass, each day is spent revisiting the attack and dreading that it may happen again — a stark allegory for Americans who vividly remember 9/11 and its immediate aftershocks.
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If the (notoriously unpredictable) Academy has a preference, it seems to be for authors whose work can be read as an allegory for the larger story of their nation or culture.
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There she meets a reclusive puppeteer, another guest, who is developing his next show, a political allegory about an insurrection of serfs, bats and donkeys against a corrupt king and queen.
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Mr. Ma's books have been banned in mainland China since 1987, and he says his new novel, the biting satire "China Dream," is a political allegory of the country's modern self.
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And basically, there's one knock after another, and what you begin to see once Michelle Pfeiffer and Ed Harris' kids show up is that this is clearly an allegory for something.
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You probably knew that two shots into the movie, but this is clearly an allegory for something, and it's clearly based on a very specific — it's based on the Bible, okay.
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To this genre we can add Hannah Lash's chamber opera "Desire," a dreamy and enigmatic allegory about the creative process that premiered Wednesday night at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
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Since their debut with JYP Entertainment nearly two years ago, Stray Kids' discography has weaved a narrative that serves as an allegory for the joys and pains of coming of age.
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A Pied Piper story that doubles as a boldfaced allegory about class and community, "Where We Stand" is rich in its language but vague about what it truly wants to say.
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A missing painting from Rembrandt's series on the five senses, "The Unconscious Patient (An Allegory of the Sense of Smell)," was rediscovered at an estate sale in New Jersey in 2015.
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In an allegory of boomer-economics, her father has checked out of parenting his motherless daughters, in order to enjoy life with his sex-obsessed, saccharine new fiancée, played by Colman.
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The journey through "Plexiberg" — paying attention to the subtle movement of shadows and mixing of colors — is an allegory of all the lives we are flowing through, as perceived by others.
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Students saw parallels to climate change in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," but also in a Rachmaninoff concerto and a mathematical problem called the Collatz conjecture.
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She appears, for example, as the personification of Inclination (the urge that leads one to achieve acts of genius), as an allegory Painting itself, and as a theatrically costumed lute player.
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Yes, we're here to talk about Mayer's new video for "Still Feel Like Your Man," which is an allegory for his thoughtful entrance into cannabis life, but also so, so much more.
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It's a brilliant twist on an old dynamic that simultaneously supports an allegory about 21st-century discrimination so rich, you could create a college course dedicated solely to analyzing how it operates.
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Beyond that, there's much more going on in King's book than any Trumpian subtext, and it would be a serious misreading to suggest that the novel offers any sort of political allegory.
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Until Taflinger decided to add to the plan: his new idea was to surround The Ruins with a Constitution Mall, an allegory of American history, to be completed for the national bicentennial.
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I'm just spit-balling here, but that juxtaposition must have had some real-life allegory: After all, Willis was fresh off Moonlighting at the time and Rickman was discovered doing Dangerous Liaisons.
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His most famous story, "Young Goodman Brown," is an allegory of how any man might be driven mad by a paranoid, intolerant society, like the one that culminated in the witch trials.
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My book was an allegory of Pacific colonialism, and it seemed right that I should wear this reminder of Hawaii, what it had been and what it had lost, on my hand.
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Asquith's reading of The Rape of Lucrece essentially proposes the poem as a political allegory, with Lucrece the raped but stoical suicide as a figure for an England ravaged by the Reformation.
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"So yes, it's a silly game with brightly colored dogs jumping around," he said, "but I was going for something a bit more complex and open than an allegory with a 'message.'"
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Though I eventually saw that Mr. Hart was offering a dystopian allegory for America, I find his conclusion that the Yankees are "emblematic of everything that characterizes us as a nation" absurd.
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It's a believable premise, and the bit easily functions as an allegory for a variety of outrage greatest hits like The Dress, "fake news," or even Ansari's own experience with the Babe.
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Fassbinder avails himself of blunt Brechtian political allegory as well as his knowledge of the Hollywood melodramatist Douglas Sirk, particularly Sirk's use of interior décor to comment on his characters' emotional states.
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Jordan Peele followed up his 2017 smash debut Get Out with Us, a blistering horror allegory about the parts of America's past we'd rather forget, and the judgment we'll face for it.
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Besides, even the hopeless, ignorant cave dwellers of Plato's most famous allegory would surely also mock and dismiss the all-knowing philosopher king who deigned to make their presence known to them.
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It argues that the unceasing pursuit of fame and fortune has "become the new American dream" (it's a favorite phrase), replacing the Horatio Alger allegory of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.
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Foretellers of a Thunbergian takeover may find comfort in Barba's allegory, in which the children fail to conquer the world—because the adults can't understand a word they say, and destroy them.
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A brilliant allegory that imagines a world in the grip of fascism and that — as throngs of desperate people seek asylum — becomes a frightening, all-too-real vision of our own world.
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But perhaps Miller is right: Every work of fiction contains people who do not exist, in purely invented places, to be enjoyed not as representation but as allegory and metaphor and delight.
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Humans clearly didn't turn into vampires in 2019, though actor Ethan Hawke said in 2007 that the movie was actually an allegory about how the world was running out of natural resources.
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In the less fervent "Die Orden der Nacht" ("The Orders of the Night," 1996), subtlety and complexity are sacrificed in favor of stark contrasts between man and nature, suggestive of folklore allegory.
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But at least there was a gay writer in the room, David Gerrold, who wrote a first-season script telling an AIDS allegory via a guest actor concerned about his sick boyfriend.
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Please, Baby, Please" was described by unnamed sources as "a mix of political allegory" with actual news footage mixed in of President Donald Trump and NFL kneeling protests.
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Under Disney, an allegory of arranged marriage in which Beauty's consent was the fantasy became the story of a woman whose captor eventually softened enough that he didn't punish her for challenging him.
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Not only is the hour important to the show's mythology, it also helps solidify the bonds between Kara, Alex and J'onn, and proves to be a timely allegory of our current political climate.
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The best of the genre is more interested in allegory than accuracy, anyway, so why not gauge a film's prescience by how it compares one actually released in the "not-too-distant future"?
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Even if you have no knowledge of Mr. Albee's later, illustrious career, you'll still find much to savor and shiver over in this allegory of pushing the elderly into the arms of death.
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Love it or loathe it, only the steeliest among us will be able to get through the film – which works as a Biblical allegory and is also simultaneously about climate change – without cringing.
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It has traditionally been cast as an allegory of climate change, but I think you've hit on something with the World War II comparison, which instead suggests a kind of mutually assured destruction.
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He uses his admiration of H.P. Lovecraft's classic horror stories as an allegory for similar societal critiques, and thanks to these adaptations, Revocation's death metal has morphed into a much more twisted endeavor.
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If Far Cry's disapproval of acquisition, of material gain, has appeared out of place in the games to date, there's no doubt that Montana provides the fifth core title a natural, geographical allegory.
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"Executioner's Tax" is an allegory about how we as a society are killing ourselves with certain things, whether it be food or prescription drugs, because we just want a comfortable way to die.
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But if some hope to turn the story into a more positive one of ethical science, feminist artists and critics have read it as an allegory of male usurpation of female procreative power.
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In much the same way that it's not about race, "The Intruder" is not about politics, which is to say that there's a suggestive little allegory tucked into its by-the-numbers plot.
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The 25181s horror film "Wolf's Hole" (on Saturday), for instance, about teenagers on a ski trip, is said to offer an opportunity to see Chytilova fuse political allegory with more conventional genre tropes.
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In time, the palette is splattered by blood red, the elliptical narrative gets down and dirty, and "Bacurau" becomes a heart-thumping political allegory that tips its hat to masters like John Carpenter.
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WM: No, no, no, there's a lot going on here, and I think once the rollercoaster of crazy really flies off the rails...it really does become more than a strictly Biblical allegory.
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Just like the 9/11 allegory, those of us who are tuned into the suffering of our fellow humans can feel these elements alive in the world before the show spells them out.
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Bong Joon-ho's grim adaptation of the graphic novel "Le Transperceneige" turns a post-apocalyptic train, on which surviving humans are living, into an allegory and a microcosm of class divides and dictatorships.
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This has always been one of its most fascinating aspects: John Wayne detested it as an allegory about the blacklist, but it was a favorite of President Eisenhower (and other presidents as well).
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The first in the series is Rakka, an allegory for military occupation in which a human resistance led by Sigourney Weaver fights a brutal alien race equipped with powerful weapons and mind control.
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The original Harry Potter series, meanwhile, was known for its political allegory to the point where debate erupted in 2017 over so many people bringing the series up in reference to the Trump administration.
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To understand where the U.S. democracy is at, ACLU boss Anthony Romero says all we have to do is look at a 14th century painting: Ambrogio Lorenzetti's The Allegory of Good and Bad Government.
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If the works themselves can be viewed as "minor," in that they don't loudly announce an agenda, are their formal qualities muddied or compromised by their relationship to allegory or, more importantly, to themselves?
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Plath called it a "vague symbolic tale," which is accurate: It's an allegory about a young girl on a train ride, filled with self-conscious menace and heavy with overtones of sex and death.
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The same thing happened with District 9, where you started off with allegory, but there's a certain point [when] it branches off, and as long as you're not damaging the metaphor, then it's fine.
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This allegory of self-annihilation points to the practice of self-immolation by Buddhist monks during the Vietnam War and, before that, the death by burning of heretics, witches, sexual deviants, and cross-dressers.
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As a result, writers had to resort to allegory and figurative language, as Leehey shows in an analysis of a short story called "Saturn" published in 1992 under the nom de plume Win Sithu.
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The making of Call the Comet, the new album from guitar legend and The Smiths founding member Johnny Marr, is a fitting allegory for today's inescapable echo chamber of news cycles and talking heads.
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So complete is the wreck of earthly happiness that scholars over the years have interpreted the tale as a Sufi allegory of love for God rather than as a representation of any human passion.
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For the longest time, such an unexpected allegory for burgeoning womanhood would be relegated to the least-attractive time slot on some forgotten network or ignored by the television powers that be all together.
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The Afternoon of a Faun is a highly conscientious novel, elegant in its execution and almost humble in its refusal to grandstand, or to turn a story about rape allegations into some didactic allegory.
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If I even try to tell you what kind of movie it is — crime story, road picture, science-fiction allegory, religious prophecy — I might be telling you something you'd rather not know just yet.
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As an allegory, the Old Testament scenes of Sodom in flames, or statues tumbling in Jericho, had a moral tone alongside the new ruins appearing in the wake of the 16th century's religious violence.
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The best film by Isao Takahata, who started the studio with Mr. Miyazaki, this is a comic allegory about battling packs of tanuki (Japanese raccoon dogs) joining forces to fight human real estate developers.
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Pruitt may have chosen this image because the comic artist Jack Kirby is among his inspirations, or he may sneaking in an allegory, since the Silver Surfer originally served Galactus but eventually found liberty.
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But Yuko's story seems to be detached from the larger allegory of what's happening in this community as it grapples with racial injustices, family division, life under daily militarized supervision, and the war itself.
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With 16 paintings created over 22 years, the show is an introduction to Mr. Lovelace's style, which blends the directness of much outsider art with a cogent political awareness and a penchant for allegory.
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The best that can be said of it is that its title subject — a male genius who uses and abuses women, some with very contemporary-looking bikini waxing — makes a fitting film-industry allegory.
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" That, as you may or may not have learned in English lit, is a stark Christian allegory of trudging toward the boneyard that makes John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" look like "Singin' in the Rain.
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Depicting the intertwined relationship between two families in Seoul, Bong turns the physical landscape and the architecture of place into an allegory of economics: Who lives on top and who toils at the bottom?
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You can defend what's happened since as a natural, even realistic, progression, but the political-philosophical-religious allegory the show's become is a wan replacement for the nail-biting survival tale that it was.
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For so long, so much about Michael Jackson won our awe, our pity, our bewilderment, our identification, our belief that he was a metaphor, an allegory, a beacon, a caveat — for, of, about America.
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The Rabbits and Bears function as a loose allegory for both the two-party political system and the battle of the sexes, but both are ultimately corrupt and betray those who are counting on them.
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Sam Gold, director of the new Broadway production of King Lear, starring Glenda Jackson as Lear in a rare gender-swapped performance, tackles this allegory head-on by essentially setting the story in Trump Tower.
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Several of the original series' most beloved episodes used the allegory of science fiction to speak directly to urgent contemporary matters about the upheaval of the 1960s, including civil rights, Vietnam, and the Cold War.
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This summer, they sued the author of a children's book that used Pepe's likeness in a thinly veiled anti-Islam allegory, reaching a settlement that sent all proceeds to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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In the surrealist shit show that life post-2016 has become, however, Carpenter had to step in almost 30 years later to clarify that the film is not, in fact, an allegory for Jewish supremacy.
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Hamilton goes one step further: As musical influences, fans, creators, and a multiplicity of identities interact with one another, Miranda's manipulation of time allows distinct historical moments to magically overlap through the power of allegory.
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"The story is an allegory of how Joplin viewed the problems of the African-American community of his time, proposing the view that racial equality would come with education," according to the foundation's website. 24.
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The Tethers' forgotten existence — leading them to spend their lives underground with no sunlight, inescapable dreariness, and all those gross rabbits — is key to making clear the allegory of how messed up America can be.
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Peele has repeatedly emphasized that Us is not about race in the way that Get Out is about race, and indeed, the story does not map neatly to a racial allegory like Get Out did.
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This casting gave Night of the Living Dead an immediately political resonance as an allegory of race relations in America, abetted by an ending that remains relevant and recurrent in horror films to this day.
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The allegory begins with a conversation, as the infamous ponderer Socrates asks Plato's brother Glaucon (and therefore the reader) to imagine a cave in which a few rather unlucky people have been imprisoned since birth.
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" A former lover claims that the song is an allegory about birth control; one of Marley's white friends describes it as a private joke they had "about him hanging out with this white guy, me.
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And if we're keeping with the trans allegory idea, the later Matrix films replicate the way many trans people ultimately become even more aware of the intersectionality of their own privilege, or lack of it.
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They are the three frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti that were commissioned for the Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) in 1338: "Allegory of Good Government", "The Effects of Good Government" (pictured) and "The Effects of Bad Government".
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I am reminded of Plato's theory of forms and his allegory of the cave, in part because a person born into poverty views their current reality as the only reality they are able to attain.
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You can be forgiven for being confused at the end of Us. The movie, like creator Jordan Peele's directorial debut Get Out, is rife with metaphors — only in Us, the allegory is much more ambiguous.
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Ms. Soper performed the second selection, as an allegory of Reason, in which a neo-Classical piano part adds arch prettiness to a text that cleverly spins variations and puns on the same key words.
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As a genre exercise, "Ma" offers some juicy, nasty kicks, but it also gestures — with maddening coyness — in the direction of the kind of socially aware allegory that made "Get Out" (and "Us") so fascinating.
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And it streamlines his work, insisting on biographical readings that position "The Little Mermaid" as a one-to-one allegory for hopeless love for Edvard, "The Little Match Girl" as a tribute to his mother.
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The fictional Republic of Gilead as an allegory of Trump's America drew scoffs from conservatives, some of whom argued that its vision of sexual slavery could also be read as a parable about assisted reproduction.
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It turns a challenging film into a generational allegory: Coping with millennial malaise involves that same kind of forgetting—forgetting that you are empty, forgetting the anger that accompanies a generation that is so stagnant.
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She also ventures into outer space — with Robert Pattinson, André Benjamin and a very cute baby — in Ms. Denis's "High Life," a mind-bending science-fiction allegory elegantly accoutered with sex, violence and metaphysical speculation.
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While somewhat on the nose as allegory, the movie deftly illustrates that a culture of collaboration — whether in Bratislava in the 1980s or, indeed, any political or workplace context — requires active participation, even if subconscious.
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Conceived as a government-sponsored informational video, this documentary is nothing less than a found epic, a real-life environmental allegory and, not least, a stinging comedy about the age-old problem of inconsiderate neighbors.
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Lipsyte tries to give his characters cleaner moments of salvation before wrapping things up, but this being a Christ allegory tucked inside a satire, it's safe to say it doesn't end terribly well for anyone.
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The trailer has the traumatic, haunting feel of American Sniper, but Man Down is actually set in "post-apocalyptic" America, which makes it seem more distant, and like more of an allegory, than it looks.
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Some companies have even launched projects to try to directly read the brain waves of pets, so one day you might be able to discuss Plato's Allegory of a Cave—or the adventures of Garfield.
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In Plato's allegory, a group of prisoners chained inside a cave, unable to turn their heads to look around, have spent their entire lives believing that the shadows in front of them are "real" objects.
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Henry James's great story "The Beast in the Jungle" is often read as an allegory for the silences of gay lives in history, the secrecy, loneliness and negations (not least those of James's own life).
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Metacritic score: 81 Jordan Peele followed up his 2017 smash debut Get Out with Us, a blistering horror allegory about the parts of America's past we'd rather forget, and the judgement we'll face for it.
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While "Allegory on Death" was in relatively stable condition, "the Doom" suffered much more damage, largely from a wax preservative applied to it in the early 20th century, which discolored the paint and also absorbed dirt.
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But in addition to describing an allegory of how we relate to our heritage, the story is also a heartbreaking look at the ways children relate or distance themselves from their parents as they grow up.
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The film is Jordan Peele's second (his company is called — wait for it — Monkeypaw Productions), and revolves around an allegory that's more elastic and resistant to parsing than the one in his 2017 megahit Get Out.
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Jordan Peele fans who go to his latest film "Us" hoping to find another "Get Out" may be disappointed: Where Peele's directorial debut lent itself to straightforward political allegory, the follow-up feels murkier and stranger.
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The book series certainly has the components to be the next big fantasy adaptation — it has a fantastic cast of characters, a plot loaded with relevant political allegory, and plenty of action and world-ending stakes.
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"[She] was in labor, and they were in danger of the baby dying—you know, in the old days, people used to die," Velasquez had said in an offhanded aside while relating this allegory to me.
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Now, in the same week that teen-pop Svengali Lou Pearlman died, my friend's brother's homemade Britney porn seems a sort of allegory for all the ways we have used and abused America's first pop princess.
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Wein played a large role in laying the foundation of the modern-day superhero story — a story about superpowered beings with otherworldly abilities, but one that's also layered with political, economic, and civil metaphor and allegory.
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Their argument, which involves Gamby's profanity-laced tough talk losing out to the history teacher's appeal for consideration and oneness, feels like the perfect allegory for the "political correctness" debate that America is currently embroiled in.
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There are several variations of this story in both Japanese and Chinese lore, but it is at its core a particularly tragic allegory of the ways in which relationships can be disrupted by distance and obstacles.
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The playwrights also made a major change to the setting: The writers have shifted the story to the 1930s, reshaping this alienation fable into an explicit if somewhat forced allegory for the coming genocide in Europe.
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A tone of fraught pessimism accumulates, swelling into sociopolitical allegory as, in the background, the country's deteriorating relationship with Ukraine plays out on the evening news and journalists are vilified for inciting end-of-days hysteria.
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"It shows the dichotomy of trying to put things into order while the world is going entropic," she said, an allegory about her own struggles at the edge of poverty that she prefers to keep private.
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He depicts a dark cave decorated for tourists with projected patches of colored lights — a stand-in for the cave in Plato's allegory, where only the shadows of outside life are visible to those chained within.
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The work was soon seized upon to support various ideological agendas: a Marxist narrative of class struggle; an allegory of environmental degradation at the hands of rapacious industrialists; a multigenerational drama about a dysfunctional royal family.
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One wall section is based on Hans Memling's painting "Allegory of Chastity" (circa 1475), in which a woman with arms folded politely seems bound at the waist by a mountain that also looks like her skirt.
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The adventure the two embark on features thrilling chases, many comic observations from Boy (a sheep, for instance, described as a "wet, smelly cloud"), and more fart references than one might expect in a religious allegory.
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And the way they talk about wolves is strikingly similar to how they talk about immigrants, turning the animal into an object of terror — and the discussion into an allegory for the nation's simmering culture wars.
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If throughout the 20th century "Hamlet" and "King Lear" vied for the title of most topical political allegory, in the new millennium "The Merchant of Venice" and "Othello" are the plays that make Shakespeare our contemporary.
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But, in this novel of symbols, the wildest and most memorable allegory does not involve Isaac at all; rather, it concerns a dog that seems to wander into Agnon's story and then runs away with it.
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What stands out is his use of classical mythology in the form of allegory to extol the virtues of the Medici family and the subjects of his medals, who ranged from Ottoman dignitaries to Venetian noblewomen.
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Malick offers this as a kind of philosophical test case and religious allegory—and indeed the real Jägerstätter, though unheralded for years after his execution at 36, was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church decades later.
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - "The Unknown Girl" (La Fille Inconnue) by double Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne seems like an allegory about Europe's migration crisis, but the Belgian brothers deny it's sending any message.
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Trump uses the song as an allegory to immigration law, suggesting that immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life and help may end up hurting the country in the end.
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But, two episodes in, it became clear that Robert and Michelle King—who are also the creators of "The Good Wife"—were working up a far stranger, more original, and certainly funkier allegory for Washington's woes.
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Written about a boat that will never make it to the water, it becomes an allegory for unfulfilled potential, as the boat sits there baking in the sun, its purpose null and void from its genesis.
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Double feature: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) John Ford's Western allegory, starring a more mature Stewart opposite John Wayne, explores very American themes of heroism through a darker frontier lens (Available to stream on Starz).
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Streaming on Netflix, Shudder, and Amazon Prime When Bong Joon-ho's monster-movie-slash-environmental-allegory The Host came out in 2006, it quickly became South Korea's highest-grossing film ever, a record it held until 2014.
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Lomax is, effectively, Annihilation's on-screen acknowledgement of how frustrating the movie will be to viewers who expect explanations rather than allegory, and who are waiting on its dream logic to firm up into something more orderly.
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Or maybe — and it might amount to the same thing — the Kims' reality has turned into an unsettling allegory of modern life, and Ki-woo doesn't see metaphors in the way that a fish doesn't notice water.
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Screengrab Credit: Universal Entertainment On Wednesday, Hollywood legend John Carpenter hit back at neo-Nazis and white supremacists online who had been idolizing his 1988 cult classic, They Live, as an allegory for fighting against Jewish supremacy.
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One such story: that of the silver medal swimmer who lost her pearl earring at the bottom of the pool, which sounds like an old-timey allegory, but is in fact exactly what happened to Kathleen Baker.
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"The Unconscious Patient (An Allegory of the Sense of Smell)" depicts two men wafting a rag under the nose of a third man who is swooning and is dated 1624, the museum said in a press release.
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Detractors took issue with the tone-deaf racial allegory (if you think having Will Smith yell "fairy lives don't matter" sounds cringeworthy, you're already ahead of the filmmakers) as well as its muddy visuals and predictable plot.
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It was Brandi Chastain who became a kind of aesthetic allegory for the spirit of the national team when, after sinking the winning penalty against China in the 1999 final, she whipped off her jersey in celebration.
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Rewarding despite its restraint, the movie has an elasticity that pushes the imagination in any number of directions, offering an expressive allegory for a lineage of powerful black women whose strength, unleashed, could literally shake the earth.
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But it has proven really hard for undergrads to see why Plato's allegory of the cave, or Leibniz's windowless monads or even Rawls's theory of liberal justice matter enough to make philosophy their majors or life's work.
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Ms. Ronen uses a dysfunctional family reunion in the countryside around Berlin as a comic allegory for the struggle between dark matter and dark energy, the forces said by physicists to make up most of the universe.
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By the end of the fourth episode, the whole series transforms into an allegory for creating healthy relationships with our feelings and the lingering effects of generational trauma on our subconscious states, and... yeah, it's a lot.
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As I came to terms with Mr. Trump's threats, my mind kept flashing to a novel: J.M. Coetzee's spare allegory "Waiting for the Barbarians," which the South African writer published in 1980, during the years of apartheid.
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" Lehmann-Haupt's chief complaints concerned the book's obvious allegory ("Russian rabbits?" he asked skeptically) and its episodic plotting: "Our rabbit band," he wrote, "moves on from the warren of the doom bunnies to one crisis after another.
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An underclass family infiltrates the home of a much wealthier clan in Bong Joon Ho's impeccably orchestrated allegory about social inequality, which mixes and matches black comedy, social satire and the white-knuckle tension of a thriller.
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In my travels for a book about the place of the Bible in our national life, I was repeatedly struck how readily many evangelicals interpreted portions of Scripture as metaphor and allegory rather than as literal fact.
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Take Eaton and the Allegory: The display they had in the lobby that highlights and educates people on the history of black bartenders in the United States — something that's as simplistic as that has so much value.
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In the adjacent Allegory bar, Erik Thor Sandberg painted his first-ever wall mural, an "Alice in Wonderland"-themed telling of Ruby Bridges, who was in the first group of African-American students to integrate Southern schools.
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The main problems come when Fantastic Beasts tries to venture outside the wonderful weirdness of Newt and his love for magical creatures to become a bigger story — maybe even allegory — about the creeping darkness of the wizarding world.
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Who can tell what cornucopia of wild chemicals the kids in this haunting Vietnam allegory ingested but when that fucked-up puer aeturnus grins for you in the movie's last freeze-frame, you know you've seen something wonderful.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that Get Out — an allegory on the violent nature of white supremacy — is not only categorized as a comedy by the Golden Globes, but has already received more nods than Girls Trip.
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If you read The Sword and the Stone as a child and haven't come back to it since, or if you've seen the Disney movie, you might be surprised when I say that it's an extended political allegory.
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Ever since "Frozen" premiered in 2013, people in the LGBTQ community have found Queen Elsa's story to be a powerful allegory for queer identity, and hoped she might be given a gay love interest in the coming sequel.
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Despite the setting and the strong allegory linking broken-down old cars and open roads to communism and capitalism, Jalopy, currently in Early Access on Steam, is primarily a story about people, with the uncle tying everything together.
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In novel after novel (he has published more than 70), Aira has specialized in what he calls "Dadaist fairy tales," which rely less on fantastical invention than on his characters' distorted perceptions and a style verging on allegory.
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There have been camp Frankensteins, feminist Frankensteins, queer Frankensteins, and political Frankensteins of all stripes, which have taken the monster's murderous revolt against its maker as allegory of everything from scientific overreach to capitalism to racism to war.
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So it's not surprising that she has looked, for her new opera, to another implausible source: "The Romance of the Rose," a medieval allegory of love and reason that encompasses nearly 22,000 lines of octosyllabic Old French couplets.
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She is in New York promoting her new film, "High Life," an emphatic allegory about infants, incarceration and intergalactic space travel starring Robert Pattinson as one of several young convicts conscripted to a mission to a black hole.
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The Broken Earth trilogy is a work of allegory and allusion, not a straightforward political parable in the vein of "Planet of the Apes" or Stephen Vincent Benét's "By the Waters of Babylon" (great as that story is).
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Hallmark could look toward examples like the cartoon series "Rugrats," whose Hanukkah and Passover specials in the 1990s have long been lauded for their use of humor and allegory to make the holidays more accessible for all viewers.
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But the social network has only ballooned in power and infamy since the movie came out in 2010 — so this visual allegory of Mark harvesting people's data for a website only became more relevant as the decade progressed.
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Mr. Homoki's rejection of allegory is unusual for "Lohengrin," an opera whose questions of faith, trust and social cohesion have often lent themselves to fanciful interpretations, like Hans Neuenfels's mouse-themed production for the Bayreuth Festival in Germany.
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In Rasmussen's hands, the body (along with squashes and melons as sexual proxies) becomes cool and uncanny, an allegory of desire: the flesh is present but the genitals, or the full individual with whom we cathect, remain absent.
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The greatness of Schiele's art lies in his drawings and not in his paintings, which are frequently overworked, overwrought, and laden with allegory — a reversal of material expectations more suited to the early 13s than the early 1900s.
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Their portraits meet the visitor without ceremony—plenty of silk and lace, even a touch of ermine, but the grandeur, the symbolism and allegory of their more formal portraits (discussed, among other things, in the accompanying book), are absent.
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The class allegory that posits that the privileged few never gives a second thought to those linked to them — by virtue of their humanity if nothing else — until they're being physically threatened is one that is worth careful consideration.
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But when it doesn't, which is, unfortunately, most of the time, it not only reveals the shortcomings of the Trump reference to begin with, but also the limitations of any approach to Shakespeare saddled to such an unsubtle allegory.
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Those small segments not only help to break up the bleakness, they ground what could have been an abstract big picture allegory about the opioid crisis, the debate over healthcare, and the people left behind without a safety net.
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"It was terrifying and I could see that there was a potential for this giant allegory for parenthood, and that's what I put into the rewrite of the script and I really tried to go for it," he said.
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An allegory exploring man's knowledge of death at the time, it follows the journey of Death, the skeletal daughter of Adam and Eve, who falls in love several times but whose husbands keep dying off on their wedding nights.
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