Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Wagner's excellent performance are some of the visual montages and images interspersed with the dialogue. Depictions of the bayou itself are rich and surprisingly colorful, as is the airstrip where Henry and Joey occasionally meet to discuss their eel-trapping. Dream sequences in which Joey attempts to come to terms both with his new vocation and the "creature" that’s living inside their bedroom wall are filmed in wonderful blues and reds which fade into and out of one another as he traverses the line between sleep and consciousness. Additionally, some of the symbolism inherent...
...following a system of nomenclature in which areas of the brain responsible for vision are named V1, V2, V3 and so forth in order of their discovery, the researchers were obliged to name the new area of the visual system they identified after the tomato-based juice...
...dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes after a sleepless night). Aronofsky, who has parlayed this movie's Sundance success into two Hollywood deals, is that rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms. He's a genuine experimenter with a spooky visual style. Max might be speaking for his gifted creator when he says, "I'm on the edge, and that's where it happens." We wish...
...Sight is a very visual film, also not because it takes the easy path of dwelling on its attractive main characters. Color dominates the atmosphere of the movie, from the tropical saturation of the Miami scenes to the dingy gray of inner-city Detroit. A mesmerizing clarity of hue and light is emphasized by camera angles more inventive than those of standard industry shots. The surprising shots usually enhance the movie--bright, brittle, nonchalant depiction of the sparse violence appears almost innocuous, preserving Foley's good-guy feel; a dizzying, lightning-quick camera pan around a prison yard makes...
...beast. The central conceit of the picture is a love affair, not as platonic or intellectual as you might think, that springs up between a soldier and a leopard. Yes, that is what I said, and it's a lot of ground for one picture to cover conventions of visual storytelling cannot easily accommodate such philosophical ambitions. It's hard enough to stage this cross-species romance, much less unpack what it could possibly mean...