Under fluorescent lights it might seem attractive, but at home in your living room, it will give you headaches, ruin
the cinematic quality of the movie you're watching and drive up your electric bill.
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But a measuring stick does not make a
movie, and Milk, for all its admirable
qualities, doesn't transcend the problems inherent to biopics; it loses some
of its power to the same lumpy conventionality that scotches most
cinematic attempts at portraiture.
Quirkiness is a
quality many directors try for in their
movies, but it's rather a lost cause — like many
cinematic qualities, either it's there or not; you can't just pull it out
of thin air.
In recent years I have felt that the technical level
of current photo - journalism, while it brings us instant images
of war, has also inured us to its horrors because
of the high - definition,
cinematic quality which looks similar to the
movies of Hollywood.