a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life
the film is an apologue of sorts, but the message is couched in a zany and action-filled plot
But Machete is also a still-timely political allegory about a monstrous conspiracy targeting Mexican immigrants.
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Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
9 Aug. 2025
On a personal level, Moving’s allegory of superpowers as disability—cemented by disabled superhero Lee Jae-man (Kim Sung-kyun)—is an overdue approach to the genre.
Allusions to myths, fables, and riffs on common idioms abound, many of them evocative and quite funny.
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Lora Kelley,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
As three people with remote connections to a house try to solve two brutal murders, the story becomes increasingly complicated and implausible, evolving into a fable about a cursed family.
The two met in secret, and some versions of the story suggest their love lives on only in death, much like the Western tale of Romeo and Juliet.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Aug. 2025
With all due respect to the pressures of making an unconventional sci-fi film on a tight budget, using ecologically destructive technology for a story of ecological devastation, in which clean water is an increasingly rare resource, adds an unintentionally grim layer of irony to the tale.
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