The effect is so bizarre as to produce a sense of cognitive dissonance -- as though Simone de Beauvoir had wandered onto the set of the Robin Byrd show.
There's no risk of dissonance this time, though: Wearing the uniform of a guard gives 47 his privileges, unless you run into one of that (now, at least, incapacitated) guard's closest work colleagues, or the security supervisor, who knows his entire team personally.
Even here though is some cognitive dissonance.
By the end, though, his dissonance succeeds: it puts us out of tune as well.
Rotoscoping makes certain sense for a film about cognitive dissonance and alternative realities, though both the vocal and gestural performances by Mr. Reeves, Mr. Harrelson and, in particular, the wonderful Mr. Downey make me wish that we were watching them in live action.
In a way, though, that aural versus visual dissonance makes the pleasure even greater.
The fact is we experience a cognitive dissonance reading these books, accurate though their characterizations of dying may be.
Though his degree of dissonance is perhaps greater than most, Mr. Elon's two-track approach to this jarringly calm summer reflects that of many Israelis.
