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Everyday items such as crates, boxes, metal containers, etc. - items which most of us perceive as utilitarian at best and dismiss as being utterly without aesthetic merit - are instead converted into glorious objects d'art by Burtynsky's camera.
This made it easy to overlook what the "critics" perceive to be its shortcomings.
The film reminds us what it's like to see the world through children's eyes and all the magic, mystery, and horror they perceive.
It might seem odd to say that Stagecoach is not fully appreciated, all but the most purblind of critics must perceive that it is one of of the greatest Westerns, and perhaps even one of the hundred greatest films of all time.
We can see his soul, we can actually perceive it.
Their road trip becomes a fascinating dialog on the way men perceive women and women fail to understand men.
There were basic errors in story telling, and some times you have to give the audience what they want or perceive to want.
As it approaches the end, the movie gains rhythm; the final, in every sense, encounter with the big wave is rendered greatly, surfing action is truly gripping, we perceive the strong emotion when facing and struggling against this force of nature, and we also get more intimate with the characters's inner emotional world, probably because the confrontation between man and nature, with the undeniable sense of human finiteness as compared to the greatness of nature, always reveals the real quality of human life.
The scene in Bill Forsyth's 1981 film Gergory's Girl that goes a long way in cementing just how special, just how close it is to the work of genius, is the one in which, on preparation for a date with a girl, the lead male character is reminded of a joke that is what we perceive as a really dirty and unnecessary one given the scenario.
The film should've been called "Australian Story" to make more sense of the lopsided and biased view of what the Aussies perceive to be the strange cultural behaviour of the Japanese - after all, the whole film depends upon a Western view of the woman looking at this strange man from the Far East who seem to have no cause or reason to be wandering about the Outback other than the fact that he can.
In my opinion, many types of groups or cults (politically or religiously inspired) capitalize on people searching for a person or group who can dramatically change what they perceive as an unrewarding existence.
Just the thought of this madman coming into the real world and wreaking havoc is scary enough for anyone that could realistically perceive this.
These kinds of victim movies are an indictment of the powerlessness of women, a lack of power that most men do not see or perceive.
The conflict between Rhames and Howard relates to the way many African-Americans perceive themselves and their places in society after centuries of slavery/oppression.
The story is interesting, showing how a group of close friend perceive the world in very different ways when on acid and not.
Human perceive things in most wonderfully creative and erogenous ways.
Of course, the fact that other than a fake avalanche, there is no substance or story line that I could perceive to this film.
Its not about Anger Its not about being "ghetto" or "hood" like many people perceive when they see this movie.
Reading the several reviews herein, I perceive no middle ground.
But then that is just about all it is is a story loosely based on real facts, as I perceive them.
It's almost redundant for me to say that Asian horror is at the forefront of what we perceive as disgusting and repellent (in a good way).
Perhaps this film has a little more depth than people expect, so they incorrectly perceive it to be a lackluster and shallow mindnumbing entertainment.
We are afraid that others will perceive us as crazy.
If one nation -- say, Yugoslavia -- is otherwise inclined to abuse its citizens, it will perceive no reciprocal benefit from compliance with an international norm that requires greater respect for human rights.
This would involve raising the target to a level in line with the actual inflation rate observed in the post-crisis period – a level that the public would perceive as realistic, honest, and credible.
Then again, part of our unease probably has to do with what we perceive as an unequal exchange.
Encouraged by the achievements of modern science, we came to perceive the future as being radically open.
We see the menace of this tendency constantly nowadays, but we perceive it in such a seemingly unthreatening way that we may well become accustomed to it rather than arresting it.
This sentiment is especially acute for Germans, who remain bitter at, as they perceive it, having been Europe’s paymaster during the crisis.
Fifth, in countries where private-sector deleveraging is very rapid via a fall in private consumption and private investment, the fiscal stimulus should be maintained and extended, as long as financial markets do not perceive those deficits as unsustainable.
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