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unknowability 49 engrossing 49 Tolkien esque 49 Conradian 49 homoerotic subtext 49 ineffably sad 49 moralizing 49 narratives 49 avoids sentimentality 49 Sophoclean 49 Svankmajer 49 IMDb listing 49 abjection 49 orientalism 49 Cinematically 49 escapist fantasy 49 metaphorical meanings 49 homo eroticism 49 didacticism 48 Aesop Fable 48 romantic fable 48 fantastical 48 Michael Petroni 48 Gothic horror 48 gnosticism 48 objective correlative 48 bleakly comic 48 deracination 48 mythic 48 Greek tragedians 48 suspenseful thriller 48 plotline 48 anthropomorphism 48 auteurism 48 mythologies 48 Grimm fairytale 48 Håfström 48 Pirandellian 48 limn 48 Herzogian 48 darkly comic 48 visually sumptuous 48 melodramatic 48 George Orwell dystopian 48 postmodern 48 Manichaean 48 timeless tale 48 hardboiled detective 48 Thematically 48 morality tales 48 pathos 48 nuanced portrayal 48 Abstinence Teacher 48 Dostoevsky novel 48 poetic prose 48 phantasmagoric 48 pantheism 48 phantasms 48 darkly humorous 48 dystopian nightmare 48 slapstick farce 48 quasi autobiographical 48 medievalism 48 moral ambiguities 48 noir detective 48 dystopian vision 48 Borgesian 48 dualisms 48 Hollywoodized 48 grittily realistic 48 biblical epics 48 archetype 48 Hitchcockian suspense 48 Magical realism 48 futuristic dystopia 48 pure escapism 48 backstory 48 espionage thriller 48 ressentiment 47 literary masterpiece 47 simplicities 47 Brian Helgeland script 47 bildungsroman 47 inescapability 47 unsatisfyingly 47 Jacobean tragedy 47 Nabokov Lolita 47 scathing satire 47 literary allusions 47 Hollywood ized 47 sendup 47 thuddingly obvious 47 evocations 47 Norse myth 47 dualism 47 existential anguish 47 espionage thrillers 47 Euripedes 47 philosophical rumination 47 stylization 47 Ford Madox Ford 47 hyperreality 47 eponymous protagonist 47 weltanschauung 47 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 47 mythological 47 clichd 47 Norse myths 47 reductive 47 gothic thriller 47 imaginatively staged 47 tropes 47 mythic resonance 47 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perilously close 47 re imagining 47 bitingly satirical 47 swooningly 47 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 47 dramatises 46 Manichean 46 Rashomon style 46 Tractatus 46 TS Eliot poem 46 soullessness 46 biblical narratives 46 unabashedly sentimental 46 pantomimic 46 darker undercurrents 46 historicism 46 referents 46 magic realism 46 apocalyptic sci fi 46 vitalism 46 epic 46 subversiveness 46 irreducibly 46 literary pretensions 46 occult thriller 46 fairy tale 46 Beckettian 46 lyric poetry 46 Arabian Nights tales 46 folktale 46 Zelary 46 metaphysical 46 voiceover narration 46 bleakly funny 46 Vinyan 46 theatrical artifice 46 Hieronymus Bosch 46 distorting prism 46 expressionist 46 elegy 46 didactic 46 Nihilism 46 Social Realism 46 religious iconography 46 unrelievedly 46 naturalism 46 Blind Shaft 46 Lovecraftian horror 46 engrossing tale 46 novel Brideshead Revisited 46 genre tropes 46 poetic 46 Alicia Erian 46 Kubrickian 46 Grimm fairy tales 46 offbeat romantic comedy 46 Expressionistic 46 stark realism 46 Max Beerbohm 46 archetypes 46 Marxist dialectic 46 trilogy 46 Amenábar 46 masterwork 46 Mysterious Stranger 46 gothic romance 46 mysticism 46 slyer 46 symbolist 46 philosophical treatises 46 Welles Citizen Kane 46 unrelentingly grim 46 allusive 46 sociological treatise 46 recontextualized 46 epic poem 46 Larry McMurtry novel 46 autobiographically 46 Wordsworthian 46 originary 46 Biblical allusions 46 surrealism 46 Götz Spielmann 46 Le Carré 46 Büchner 46 cautionary tale 46 vampire mythology 46 reductively 46 artifice 46 knight errant 46 Deadgirl 46 escapism 46 Ancient Ones 46 dualities 46 JG Ballard novel 46 Tarantino Inglourious Basterds 46 Appelfeld 46 Plotwise 46 reified 46 evocative 46 explication 46 prose poem 46 Hallström 46 Iliad Homer 46 Buñuel 46 Stephen Gaghan Syriana 46 Messud 46 quiddity 46 dialectics 46 screwball farce 46 loosely autobiographical 46 avant la lettre 46 spareness 46 mordantly funny 46 Unsentimental 46 grotesquery 46 horror subgenre 46 metaphysic 46 Mircea Eliade 46 stilted dialogue 46 realistic portrayals 46 noirish thriller 46 transcendentalism 45 richly imaginative 45 thuddingly 45 picaresque 45 Borzage 45 Strindberg 45 phantasy 45 ingeniously conceived 45 signifier 45 leitmotifs 45 comic booky 45 picaresque adventure 45 philosophical underpinning 45 unadorned prose 45 allegoric 45 Hollywoodization 45 eroticism 45 Jacobean revenge 45 gothic horror 45 Dostoevski 45 absurdist humor 45 contradictory impulses 45 Elizabethan playwright 45 affectionate portrait 45 aestheticized 45 oneiric 45 analogy 45 Grimms Fairy Tales 45 psychodramas 45 supernaturalism 45 engrossingly 45 soaringly 45 Giraudoux 45 fictionalized biography 45 excrescence 45 determinist 45 alethiometer 45 rumination 45 Don Delillo 45 dialectic 45 Grimm fairytales 45 philosopher Mircea Eliade 45 Atrocity Exhibition 45 fascinatingly 45 Shock Corridor 45 dystopian thriller 45 Heartbeat Detector 45 wildly imaginative 45 Fellini Satyricon 45 Homeric epic 45 weaves tale 45 misanthropy 45 comically absurd 45 conceits 45 undertones 45 roman à clef 45 Brechtian 45 ambiguousness 45 Victorianism 45 moralistic 45 cosmologies 45 Mrs Dalloway 45 ethnocentricity 45 doubleness 45 dystopian science fiction 45 sentimentalize 45 overly didactic 45 immensely readable 45 epilogue 45 mordantly 45 Goya Ghosts 45 philo Semitism 45 phallocentric 45 hermeneutic 45 subplot 45 prequel 45 linear narrative 45 intricately plotted 45 expositional dialogue 45 Valhalla Rising 45 Director Julian Jarrold 45 sentimentalizes 45 ghoulishness 45 escapist fantasies 45 escapist 45 historiographical 45 Grimms fairy tale 45 subversively funny 45 apologia 45 graphic novel Maus 45 Godfrey Reggio 45 endlessly watchable 45 overly preachy 45 Marx Das Kapital 45 Hell Purgatory 45 idealisation 45 absurdist comedy 45 elegiac tone 45 Separate Lies 45 Last Sin Eater 45 eternal verity 45 mythologically 45 Hero Journey 45 psychologizing 45 nameless protagonist 45 postmodern pastiche 45 hokiness 45 ungraspable 45 epical 45 Jesus parables 45 motif 45 Le Corbeau 45 reimagination 45 koans 45 Dying Gaul 45 Siodmak 45 darkly 45 slapsticky 45 psychogeography 45 bitingly funny 45 literalness 45 Twilight Zone ish 45 densely plotted 45 sordidly 45 neo realist 45 Sin Eater 45 Occidentalism 45 elaborately plotted 45 Oedipus Complex 45 unintentionally campy 45 Tekkon Kinkreet 45 mimesis 45 Zardoz 45 literal 45 narrator 45 libretto 45 Moira Buffini 45 overwrought prose 45 Inglourious Bastards 45 authorial voice 45 grippingly 45 Georg Büchner 45 clunkily 45 Revanche 45 vivid depiction 45 filmable 45 profundities 45 sardonically funny 45 Puccini opera La Bohème 45 Victorian melodrama 45 rhyming verse 45 interwoven storylines 45 existentialism 45 Shavian 45 impeccably researched 44 preachy 44 Fellini esque 44 Milo Addica 44 Imperial Bedrooms 44 heathenism 44 Daniel Giat 44 theatricalized 44 Fateless 44 mythmakers 44 Errol Morris documentary 44 savage satire 44 recognizably human 44 irredeemably evil 44 idealized 44 stylizations 44 morbidly funny 44 contemporary retelling 44 mawkishly 44 mystical realm 44 postmodern irony 44 eminently readable 44 murderousness 44 Israel Zangwill 44 constructivists 44 binary oppositions 44 cleverly woven 44 reification 44 Elizabethan Age 44 mythos 44 elegiac 44 apocalyptic 44 gritty realism 44 storyline 44 Bram Stoker classic 44 Cervantes Don Quixote 44 dystopian 44 Rosmersholm 44 darkling 44 transmogrification 44 ETA Hoffmann 44 dystopian fiction 44 murkily 44 Slavoj Žižek 44 antiheroic 44 Silas Marner 44 reimagining 44 boundlessness 44 determinism 44 romanticization 44 intricately constructed 44 hyper realism 44 romanticized 44 Louvish 44 humorlessness 44 frightfully dull 44 gothic overtones 44 threnody 44 adaptation 44 storytelling 44 grotesquerie 44 prose poems 44 Plato cave 44 Kiki Delivery Service 44 Nietzschean 44 musician Wladyslaw Szpilman 44 Steven Sater Spring Awakening 44 self reflexivity 44 Maycomb Alabama 44 novelette 44 Brothers Grimm tale 44 cosmogony 44 Martin Chuzzlewit 44 darkly funny 44 antipode 44 Superman Birthright 44 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 44 intertextuality 44 dramatization 44 superheroics 44 Shakespeare Titus Andronicus 44 Cthulhu mythos 44 fictionalizing 44 whimsy 44 Darkly funny 44 blackly humorous 44 screwball comedy 44 Suffused 44 gorefest 44 plotwise 44 Georg Buchner 44 eternal truths 44 romanticism 44 Gothic melodrama 44 picaresque tale 44 Hazel Motes 44 fictionalising 44 jeremiad 44 dogmatist 44 unflinching portrayal 44 cinematically 44 sci fiction 44 film noir 44 impressionistic 44 Plato Symposium 44 bewitchment 44 darker grittier 44 neo noir 44 Stellet Licht Silent 44 treatise 44 mise en scène 44 Twelfth Night Shakespeare 44 philosophical ruminations 44 vulgarization 44 neo Romantic 44 It'sA Wonderful Life 44 literary allusion 44 sociopolitical 44 guerilla filmmaking 44 Italian neorealism 44 Doom Generation 44 richly atmospheric 44 Michael Cristofer 44 illustration 44 ironist 44 Otherness 44 superficiality 44 German Expressionism 44 Messala 44 dreamscape 44 Isaac Babel 44 surrealist imagery 44 Len Jenkin 44 evocative imagery 44 child's eye 44 patriarchies 44 tragicomic tale 44 character arcs 44 pastiches 44 epistemological 44 structuralist 44 Euripides Medea 44 Joyce Ulysses 44 Tolkienesque 44 bracingly 44 delicious ironies 44 avant gardism 44 seriocomic 44 Lucinda Coxon 44 Chekhovian 44 magic realist 44 apocalypses 44 outsiderness 44 Alcestis 44 exploitation flicks 44 monstrousness 44 philosopher Hannah Arendt 44 Au Hasard Balthazar 44 Udayan Prasad 44 labyrinthine plot 44 Grimm fairy tale 44 royalism 44 reimagined 44 Jungian archetypes 44 unflinching realism 44 Film Socialisme 44 blackly comic 44 materialistic worldview 44 arrestingly 44 sympathetic portrayals 44 Wellesian 44 utterly captivating 44 teleology 44 Biblical texts 44 Edith Wharton novel 44 excursus 44 Géricault 44 Communism Nazism 44 Aesop fables 44 Thereby hangs 44 Norse legend 44 unsentimental portrait 44 analogies 44 unashamedly sentimental 44 illusionism 44 Vampyr 44 Vertov 44 Enlightenment rationalism 44 Annie Dillard 44 antitheses 44 valorizes 44 opera libretto 44 teleplay 44 Lasdun 44 Rotters Club 44 filmic 44 literal mindedness 44 Svich 44 trickster god 44 Swift Gulliver Travels 44 Little Eyolf 44 mawkish 44 gratuitous gore 44 Zen koan 44 Keats poem 44 Puccini opera Madame Butterfly 44 prefigured 44 noble savage 44 postmodernism 43 immanence 43 Arthur Schnitzler 43 Menno Meyjes 43 idiom 43 naturalistic 43 poignantly captures 43 Historicism 43 illusional 43 Akira Kurosawa classic 43 supernatural horror 43 Emily Brontë 43 Maeterlinck 43 potboiler 43 Tonally 43 Carlo Gesualdo 43 catharsis 43 Sheol 43 proto feminist 43 simpleminded 43 expressionistic 43 Bohumil Hrabal 43 Ballardian 43 dramatizations 43 Cthulhu Mythos 43 vividly portrays 43 Innaritu 43 daimon 43 redemptive qualities 43 absurdity 43 primitivism 43 archetypal 43 idealization 43 flashback sequence 43 Andrei Rublev 43 fallenness 43 co-writer/director 43 realism 43 po mo 43 novelisation 43 anomic 43 theological treatise 43 revivifies 43 Faulknerian 43 decidedly unsentimental 43 Conformist 43 fabulism 43 baroquely 43 Rechy 43 lyrical prose 43 Evelyn Waugh novel 43 roundelay 43 limitlessness 43 Mountstuart 43 Robert Bresson 43 fictionalise 43 Freudian psychology 43 Pregnant Widow 43 antihero 43 heartstring pulling 43 splatter fest 43 re tellings 43 vividly evoked 43 banality 43 EL Doctorow Ragtime 43 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 43 Bergmanesque 43 Accordion Crimes 43 monologuing 43 Naked Prey 43 denoument 43 Rafael Yglesias 43 sc fi 43 Mobius strip 43 expressionism 43 intertitles 43 Leon Uris 43 romance Atonement 43 Pressfield 43 Todd Solondz Happiness 43 Miéville 43 Burtonesque 43 Masculine Feminine 43 redemptive 43 descriptive prose 43 La Moustache 43 cinematic 43 Marc Forster Monster Ball 43 trippiness 43 Lamorisse 43 unfilmable 43 darkly satirical 43 Weltanschauung 43 cinematic masterpiece 43 Cuarón 43 Tanya Barfield 43 literal minded 43 cunningly devised 43 Marxian socialism 43 Jerzy Kosinski 43 intricately structured 43 uproarious comedy 43 Adrian Lyne 43 Dantean 43 philosophical musings 43 side splittingly 43 Theodore Dreiser 43 heartwarmer 43 Pietro Aretino 43 Busby Berkeley musical 43 ingeniously 43 morally ambiguous 43 memento mori 43 romanticises 43 Yeats poem 43 Elizabeth Meriwether 43 Charlotte Brontë classic 43 Gombrowicz 43 stagey 43 humor pathos 43 darkly comical 43 intellectualized 43 novelist Evelyn Waugh 43 Gaston Bachelard 43 wholly unoriginal 43 dialectical materialism 43 Goodbye Lenin 43 retells 43 mythologised 43 spaghetti Westerns 43 Rudyard Kipling classic 43 Heller Catch 43 forboding 43 Collectible Spoons 43 incomprehensibility 43 Benito Cereno 43 singspiel 43 Mongolian Ping Pong 43 sentimentalizing 43 sentimentality 43 otherworld 43 fairy tale Rapunzel 43 visual panache 43 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 43 Messianism 43 science fiction thrillers 43 existential dread 43 poet AE Housman 43 scientific rationalism 43 cinematic oeuvre 43 judgmentalism 43 miserablism 43 Erik Lochtefeld 43 Thirteenth Tribe 43 adapatation 43 abstract noun 43 Crabwalk 43 JG Ballard Crash 43 Sokurov 43 interiority 43 Mikael Håfström 43 transcendence 43 sheer strangeness 43 Alexandre Dumas novel 43 Daniel Deronda 43 surreal dreamlike 43 exoticism 43 otherness 43 Imaginary Heroes 43 wilder shores 43 existential angst 43 Anansi Boys 43 Van Dormael 43 von Trotta 43 eXistenZ 43 overfamiliar 43 hyper realist 43 meller 43 interwoven narratives 43 Dunwich Horror 43 Postmodernists 43 screenplay adaptation 43 speculative fiction 43 Jean Giono 43 Philip Pullman trilogy 43 mythic tales 43 Flaubert Madame Bovary 43 ahistorical 43 slasher pic 43 Superman mythology 43 poeticism 43 overtones 43 Zusak 43 M. Hulot Holiday 43 self referentiality 43 pietistic 43 protagonists 43 Karel Capek 43 Knut Hamsun 43 Au Revoir Les Enfants 43 disarmingly funny 43 overarching narrative 43 JS Cardone 43 juxtaposition 43 dandyism 43 Hitchcockian thriller 43 Heritage Dictionary defines 43 darkly amusing 43 Steinbeck novel 43 childlike simplicity 43 narratively 43 slackerdom 43 lightly fictionalized 43 novella 43 auteur cinema 43 gothic fairytale 43 self referential humor 43 Monsieur Hire 43 Father Lankester Merrin 43 sentimentalism 43 existential quandaries 43 deliriously funny 43 adapation 43 darkly comedic 43 reimagines 43 crucifixion resurrection 43 Anakin Skywalker Darth Vader 43 Shakespearean tragedies