Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cascade of lovely images, Lolita succeeds in being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot. Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about the power of film. --Irene Hahn...
...Omni Theater is quite a pleasant shock. The screen curves and stretches upward on all sides until the panels catch up with each other and meet harmoniously in a perfect half-sphere, forming a deceivingly delicate, pearly shell that encompasses and dominates the audience for the entire show. The viewer might be tempted to complain about neck strain, but the seats do recline. Besides, when the movie actually starts, one will realize that this is the only way to be surrounded by an infinite sky, and feel the urge to fly or fall right into...
...they're almost cute. Naturally, the famous Amazonian piranhas and other such dangerous beasts show up and startle the audience, if not with their teeth then with their alien appearances. The mountains tower so high they threaten to break the sky-dome of the screen, the forest envelopes the viewer on all sides with its strange beauty and noise, and the audience can truly be lost in the wilderness of South America...
...herbs, but they are also there for the shock value: Who wouldn't be surprised, if not alarmed, at the sight of a man's lower lip pierced with something that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to a stick of bamboo? There is a feeble attempt to enrich the viewer's historical understanding of the discovery of and relations with various tribes, but pay no attention to it. Most people will probably ignore it anyway...
...What the woman says is exactly as correct as what the man says," Mamet said. "The viewer should look at the herd mentality, the clumping together of higher education, and say, 'What is going on here...