Movies are confidence tricks played on willing victims. The bullets are blanks and the sex is faked, but we usually want to believe, as long as the lights are down, that it's all real. Creating that belief — or rather, that suspension of disbelief — has long been Hollywood's goal. But there are also filmmakers — Lars von Trier ("Dogville") being one, Peter Greenaway ("The Pillow Book") being ...
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