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• n  (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
• n  an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

• What makes Tomine's work difficult for some is the naturalism.
• It has nothing of the exaggerated manga style, instead embracing a naturalism that reflects the stories.
• Seen this way, the defenseless movie is reduced to a Rorschach inkblot, an excuse for prolonging the debate between fantasy and naturalism.

• realism

News & Articles

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• Movie review: 'All is Bright,' 3 stars
  Watching "All is Bright" is like stepping in a time capsule and popping out in a movie theater sometime between the late '60s and mid-'70s, the height of post-studio system American naturalism.
  Oct. 3, 2013 - amNewYork

Quotes

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• Ken Ham in Forbes
  Stalin, Hitler and Mao were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions - and it can be shown they did this because of the influence of Darwinian naturalism......,Ham writes.
• Matt Damon in United Press International
  We walked around. I talked to him about movies. I would talk to him about Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando . . . you know, these guys that revolutionized film acting in terms of naturalism. . . . He basically didn't know who they were. And it's... Viggo Mortensen http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Mortensen&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHi24XLZSj2X3g4yZkTPj2ByCS4sA Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20091122_On_Movies__Mortensen_breaches_postapocalyptic_frontier.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEKOSRZojhsAUadc4rLuW5D5rpeaA Nov 22, 2009 66719 88854 naturalism Bob was just insistent on absolute naturalism and realism," Damon said in New York. "He's a student of human behavior. I've never seen an actor as famous as him walk into a room and do what he does, which is he just disappears. He absolutely...