Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict. (variety.com)
The deliberate rearrangement of the social norms and traditions is aimed at producing defamiliarization and restructuring the preunderstanding's perception of reality. (religion-online.org)
In his introduction to Forty - one False Starts, Ian Frazier — another peerless New Yorker writer — observes, «When a good jolt of defamiliarization knocks the rust off your perceptions, you don't forget.» (bookpage.com)