Super Deflation
Spielberg’s anywhere USA, the signature Mid-West suburb, appeals to most moviegoers. It’s the cinematic white picket fence or the generic accent-less radio voice. It offers the easily consumable wares of comforting predictability, generational nostalgia and wholesome sentimentality. But the rushed final moments of the faux sci-fi mystery Super 8 void the film of meaning and derail an otherwise credible summer hit. The principal conflict is an internal one: Joe Lamb misses his mother. He overcomes sorrow by focusing his energy on hobbies, such as model making. He also finds solace in his friends, who he assists as they scramble to prepare a submission for a film contest. But when Alice Dainard wins his attention, Joe recognizes that what he misses isn’t...
Avatar
“Just relax and let your mind go blank …” At the brink of a new decade, a motion picture that redefines the science-fiction genre immerses spectators into a world unconstrained by convention. Innovative technologies and filming techniques bring awe-inspiring visuals to a higher echelon of realism. Of course, that motion picture is The Matrix. James Cameron insists that avatars are not “synthetic alter-egos in cyberspace” and Avatar is “not a Matrix-type story.” However, he describes avatars as “controlled by a human driver who projects [his] consciousness via a technology which links [his] mind to the avatar body and they … live through that body in a kind of remote control as the human body is in a coma-like state.” If the “driver”...
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