The major battle scenes are technically proficient without ever being meaningful or emotionally involving, mainly due to the absence
of audience investment in the characters.
However, in terms of
audience investment in Edward and Florence's fate, it's perhaps just too little, too late.
With a bit
more audience investment, Hardcore Henry's rush could have been sustained awhile longer, keeping things going at a more steady pace until the very end.
Mrs. Erlynne's self - motivated moral salvation allows for a happy ending, but a spring - loaded plot secret and the impassiveness of Hunt's delivery make the character's eventual guilt too little, too late for
complete audience investment.
Hyrule Warriors, on the other hand, shows exactly how you can support a game in a way that
respects audience investment, enhances the gameplay experience, AND makes the publisher money.
As MIT media theorist Henry Jenkins so keenly recognizes in his book Convergence Culture, media corporations are increasingly mindful of the «emotional capital» of their audience — the «importance
of audience investment and participation in media content.»
Without a high level of mystical intrigue and unnerving eeriness fuelling the story, the plot fails to ignite on a level that would allow
for audience investment and identification.
Schoenaerts, and especially a flirtatiously seductive Johnson add volumes to the atmosphere and
audience investment.
Cold, calculating, and over-the-top with both its romantic entanglements and formulations of violence, it's a strangely masochistic film absent of any kind of
audience investment, with a femme fatale who strangely lives up to her choice surname.