In other words, the mid-life crisis is a fable - but we all love fables, don't we?
At first, this is a blissful charmer a fable soaked in gently ironic nostalgia.
He wants, in a word, to desacralize the story, make it less of a fable and more of a history.
It seems that the marketing for the film, a fable by Dr. Seuss about the need to protect the environment, did its job.
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It begins as a prehistoric adventure (a popular genre at the time), and is related in the solemn, archaic cadences of a fable.
Not surprisingly, "A Fable" is tedious, lifeless, imprisoned within its idea.
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Maus is a memoir told as a fable, and the combination of words and pictures allows Spiegelman to be at once harrowingly specific and prophetically general.
His flawed reaction to the damning doping revelations taught a valuable personal branding lesson: Never let your story become such a fable that the fall is so steep.
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The unsecret ingredient of its rampant success was turning a dog-eared, dog-eat-dog premise into a coming-of-age story about a strong, resourceful girl, then widening it into a fable of star-crossed lovers.
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Mr Mawer has fused pure story-telling with complex genetic theory to produce a fable that is accurate and readable a mature marriage of science and fiction in which scientists are no longer Frankensteins, Strangeloves or nerds.
Venter's quest could be a fable, with all sorts of morals about the power of capitalism and the importance of a single, brilliant, willful individual who used the market to shake the ivory towers of science.
Constructed around a fable involving an alien spaceship which hailed a group of hackers and touched down for repairs to their damaged computers, the camp featured a sculpted spaceship and a "landing area" illuminated by ghostly neon pillars.
The new Ang Lee film is scripted in Cantonese and Mandarin and set in the China of the early nineteenth century, although we could be watching a fable from any time in the last millennium, or from no time at all.
Their intrigue grows when a fable she tells her students, about an anal-fixated princess who promises her hand in marriage to a dog for licking her bottom clean, starts to resemble real life: A man appears at her door, displaying canine tendencies.
The novel demands to be read like this, as a fable, for while it roots around in the stench and swill of life, it is at the same time a highly figurative tale about truth versus fact, about meaning, and the power of language both to carry and destroy it.
The issue of expectations is unavoidable since the film's marketing campaign, like the early passages of the film itself, suggests a feminist fable of a young warrior going off to fight her own battles thus the iconic poster image of the heroine alone in a forest, bow and arrow at the ready.
The result is a garish, loud parody of a garish, loud world, as well as a treacly fable of family togetherness that drags on like a never-ending pit stop.
At times, the musical narrative of All Is Falling recalls Unwed Sailor's 2003 concept album The Marionette and the Music Box, but it's richer and more like a morally ambiguous fable than a children's storybook.
Black and White was fantastic, Fable was a good start and Fable 2 improved on its predecessor.
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This gentle but ambitious Israeli film, directed by Eytan Fox and written by Gal Uchovsky, is a political thriller that turns into a moral fable.
If you stretch the metaphor a bit, the books could be seen as a menacing fable of capitalism, in which an ethos of competition increasingly yields winner-take-all victors.
What Durkin is seeking to construct, without resorting to comic books, is a pagan fable one of tribal ferocity, sacrifice, and the promise of rebirth bang in the middle of a modern setting.
David Weiss, the self-described "default de facto" leader of the group, won a CMA grant for "The Turning Gate, " a revolving phrase of 51 beats inspired by a Korean fable about unattainable happiness.
Roller derby's rise is a small fable of globalization that demonstrates the speed with which pop culture is now transported by highly mobile expatriates and social media, while also highlighting the changing role of women in many societies.
Although ostensibly a moral fable based on the Greek myth of Apollo and Alphisa, its libretto, ascribed to Louis de Cahusac, contains what were then quite radical thoughts about the nature of a woman's right to choose her partner, and the role of the people in deciding on a ruler.
The scope of "Thirst" keeps expanding with each story: Here Kalfus deftly executes a realistic depiction of the vacillations of a young husband contemplating adultery with his wife's close friend, there he's spinning a Borges-like fable about a tribe of refugees who have been on the road so long their nomadism has evolved into a culture of its own.
The result, despite the modern setting, is a strangely old-fashioned fable, with a redeeming innocent thrown among evil men.
And the story itself doesn't end up a downer as the fable unfolds, telling how even a loutish, self-absorbed lawyer can ultimately find redemption.
The film was to be a hybrid of three stories: a documentary about the Rio carnival, the fable of a boy and a bull, and the dramatized account of a protest, in which four Brazilian fishermen sailed along the coast to Rio to demand justice from the President.
Miyazaki has fashioned a complex ecological fable about the conflict between industrial progress and nature, town and countryside.
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