Word: metaphorical
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...moles are a metaphor for mediocrity,” she says. “The idea was that moles have this underground life... although they don’t have a prescriptive path, they always know their way around, and this is a metaphor for people who choose the easy trajectory in life. Leah does not want to follow that path. She wants to do what she can do best, and that’s not easy...
...gentrifying white couple in the now all-black neighborhood in 2009. But When the Rain Stops Falling goes far beyond such schematic parallelism. Bovell's time-hopping structure is intricate but surprisingly natural - never strained or purposely obfuscating. Rather, as in the works of Faulkner, it is a powerful metaphor for the impossibility of escaping the past, for the way we are all shaped by what came before - and are living in the shadow of what comes next...
...that evocative image suggests, Grahame-Smith isn't just lucky. He's a lively, fluent writer with a sharp sense of tone and pace. And as in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the mashup is not as arbitrary as it first seems. Vampirism is a metaphor for slavery: like slave owners, vampires live off the blood of others. (See the 100 best novels of all time...
JHFH: Well, in the original script Richard Young does die. I don’t want to say that it’s all one big metaphor, but it is sort of metaphorical. There’s a Richard Young at the beginning of the film and a Richard Young at the end of the film, and the two are not the same...
...It’s a metaphor that many hands are needed to save the earth,” Aizenberg said...