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...when the photographic process is increasingly demystified, "Light Sensitive" demonstrates again and again why the best pictures can tease and suspend our disbelief in ways that painting and sculpture can't. Here the lens dissembles as much as it documents, stretching "the camera never lies" maxim to breaking point. Appropriately titled Tensio-Latin for tension-is Brook Andrew's mirrored image of a currawong poised as if to attack a coiled snake. These are in fact stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread...
Notes on a Scandal is melodrama trying to pass itself off as a slice of realistic life. But director Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber keep forcing us past disbelief and into the perverse pleasures of nastiness. If nothing else, their film is the perfect antidote to all those warm, forgiving schoolboy dramas we've endured through the years. This corn is not green; it is rotten down to the last kernel...
...deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where, as Pearson says of Brooklands, "it was impossible to borrow a book, attend a concert, say a prayer, consult a parish record or give to charity." What kind of mind frolics...
...older, wizened female; Noor, the younger female who dreams of her freedom; and Ali, the cute cub. As in a Disney movie, the animals have been blessed with the ability to speak to one another, along with the superior intelligence that usually accompanies that ability. However, suspending one's disbelief around such conceits comes more easily with children's entertainment than with a serious consideration of adult themes. I find myself thinking things like, "Does an animal that can speak of heaven need to achieve grace, or is it (he?) born without original sin?" In any case, after the bombs...
...stand there and talk to each other," He says in disbelief. "That's just not our style, the Chinese people." He struggles through the chitchat about wine, college sports and other subjects he finds completely foreign. "Duke? North Carolina? I don't know what it is!" he says, throwing up his hands in frustration...