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Sirk's All That Heaven Allows

Film, Illusion & Spectatorship, Part 2: Take me to a whole new world…but don’t show me how we got there.

In Part 1 we discussed how the typical Hollywood ending turns audiences off to movies with ambiguous endings. Now, in Part 2, we explore why audiences reject movies that remind them that they are, well, fake. The insistence on a certain type of realism, which in Hollywood comes down to slickness, truncates the audience’s imagination. [...]