"To challenge the audience" means to engage or provoke the audience's thinking, beliefs, or assumptions in order to encourage them to critically analyze or question their own perspectives and opinions.
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also challenged the audience to ask whether women in their organizations are playing roles of equal importance to the men and if not, why?
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films challenged audiences to confront the role of humans in wildlife extinction, invited viewers to think twice about our seemingly insatiable appetites for food and fuel, and encouraged the adoption of more sustainable ways of life.
Going places you will never in a million years anticipate, STBY is rich with strange soul and sickening twists and turns, smuggling «white voice» and meta - human rights in to
challenge audiences in this not - to - be-ignored creationist tale that tackles new racial epitaphs and demented sociopolitical hierarchies.
Now You See Me is a slick piece of populist entertainment that
challenges the audience at every second to stay one step ahead of the game.
Presumably Leigh's intention is to
challenge audience expectations of «normality» by creating a character far outside our experience of people's attitudes and using her to provoke introspection.
«We take great pride in saluting the work of this year's distinguished honorees whose work has impacted all facets of the film and television industries over their careers by creating work that has engaged and
challenged audiences while simultaneously spotlighted the issues important to us all,» said Black Reel Awards founder Tim Gordon.
The kind of uber - intelligent films
which challenge audiences to examine their own choices while also asking very big (often unanswerable) questions about the world around us.
76 % The Prestige (2006) Full of twists and turns, this film is a dazzling period piece that never
stops challenging the audience, and Johansson is alluring as the lovely magician's assistant who earns the affections of rival illusionists.
An immersive world - premiere theatrical mystery set in Marietta's historic Strand Theatre
challenges audience members to solve the who - dun - it.
It's fashionable, of course, to praise modern blockbusters for going «dark,» as if that by itself is genuine evidence
of challenging an audience.
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art challenges the audience to see their own experiences through the filter of each piece and begs the question «what happened here?»
Drawing on the Palace's military history to create new pieces that speak to themes of modern day conflict, we hope this
exhibition challenges audiences and creates a dialogue between past and present.»
Jeff Hurrle, VP and general manager for Sport Systems (No. 319), an Almonte, Ont. - based company that builds and installs sports equipment like bleachers and nets, knew he needed expert help to evaluate whether the brand's content was engaging enough, particularly because they target the B2B market, a
notoriously challenging audience to engage on social media.
But he also quotes another expert who complains that the middle - class white women are portrayed in such a cartoonish way that they don't
really challenge the audience.
Dr. Shane emailed to direct me to a pair of studies on the benefits of sleep he thought might be of interest to our
Sleep Challenge audience.
That shouldn't be much of a shock when it comes to anything by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, a director who never fails to
challenge the audiences who dare to take his films in.
The voice cast is strong,
almost challenging the audience to identify the often inspired and sometimes bizarre choices in the smallest of roles (Mariah Carey?!).
At the end of Spike Lee's seminal film Do The Right Thing
Lee challenged the audiences with two quotes: one from Malcolm X and the other from Martin Luther King Jr..
Death, debauchery, and a resilient ability to subsume morality in the face of expediency makes for an incisive and provocative tale that is nothing sort of breathtaking,
challenging its audience as well as entertaining it.
Director Denis Villeneuve's brooding, methodical
sequel challenges audiences to take their collective time, two hours and 44 minutes of it, and marinate in the images while Ryan Gosling «s LAPD officer stares down his latest adversary, or stares into his latest existential riddle.»
17 October: Oleg Tselkov: Alter Ego at Alon Zakaim — One of the most influential and highly regarded artists of his generation, Tselkov's work has
challenged audiences for five decades.
A largely self - taught artist, who was once Agnes Martin's studio assistant in New Mexico, Mr.
Tuttle challenged audiences right from the start.
Limiting the viewer perception by offering a single perspective to observe his interiors,
Therrien challenges his audience to produce various versions of the real incident taking place.
Yves Klein Yves Klein, the youngest and most conceptually radical of this group, took abstraction to an ultimate threshold,
dramatically challenging his audiences to «Come with me into the void.»
Using photography as a medium for capturing her painted subjects,
Hack challenges her audience to find the person she has masterfully concealed amidst a mosaic of Moroccan tiles, sunlit forest, or intricate geometric pattern.
Contemporary Artists Group Exhibition understand the belief of their own language and culture as embodied in their unique art pieces; true to their own traditions
yet challenging the audience that beliefs are merely what they assume to be true and to confront them; belief can be changed.
One got the feeling that the institution was reluctant to
challenge its audience intellectually because it was afraid that its supporters might desert it if they were forced to confront something they didn't understand.
Over more than four decades his work has
repeatedly challenged audiences to confront popular myths and wrestle with the psychological undercurrents of capitalism.