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...fish-out-of-SoHo aesthete. But the nuance is soon lost in a film that wants to be an agitprop documentary, interrupting its storyline with interviews of mostly pro-Mapplethorpe notables. The film isn't obligated to be neutral, but it's so bullying and one-sided that a viewer feels guilty for agreeing with it. Defending an artist who preferred aesthetics to righteousness, Dirty Pictures sadly advances exactly the opposite...
...placing Cirque du Soleil's most enthralling acts in natural settings: a bungee ballet in a forest; a living-statue duet in a Renaissance pool; the graceful intricacy of swimmers locking into Busby Berkeley designs underwater in the Bahamas. The performers' precision and daring touch the viewer, and not just because Journey is in 3-D. Here are humans achieving the impossible, beautifully, in a film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high...
...aesthetic nor a political leg to stand on. The ideas contained in the exhibit are too focused and yet too disparate to evoke any response, anger or otherwise. No doubt it makes one pine for Haacke's kinetic sculptures, such as 1963-65's "Condensation Cube," which leaves the viewer with visions of Yves Klein trapping dampened...
...cracks, everyone falls through and both cameras cut underwater to the murky darkness. I was immediately hit with a strong feeling of suffocation, a very powerful effect considering my seat inside on dry land. Great skill must be used to produce this kind of sensation for the viewer...
...emerge upon contact with the blue line, until at the end everything blows up in a series of explosions. What's the message here? Is this piece about a fear of technology, a call for awareness or perhaps the explosive nature of South African apartheid? Whatever it is, the viewer pays attention because the film itself moves swiftly and captivates...