As the world has caught up with Gibson's vision, the author, now 66, has turned his gaze closer to the present.
If nothing else, a decade after Sept. 11 and the wrenching, discordant attention on the faith of other people, some Americans filmmakers have shifted their gaze closer to home.
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Grizabella, the faded Glamour Cat played by Elaine Paige, has more pathos here than on the stage because the camera can gaze close up into her sad, ruined face.
Low status variants of these cues were raised brows, averted gaze, closed posture, and self-directed gestures, such as touching one's own neck.
I can see what he means; after an hour gazing close-up, a sea of thatch dances in front of my eyes.
One (Shiro Sano), a chamberlain whose watchful gaze seems closer to that of a prison guard (or nanny), rattles off the royal schedule, which includes "time for private thought".
You may note that the statue's gaze, up close, is rather piercing, perhaps in an attempt to overcome its high perch, or you can consider the way weather and pollution have reduced the marble to something that looks like cast concrete.
Amid the political allusions, the intertwining of the natural and supernatural worlds recalls the work of fellow countryman Apichatpong Weerasethakul, not least during a matter-of-fact monologue about telekinetic childhood powers in which the speaker's face seems to age as the camera's gaze draws us close, then closer still.
Our new flag has arrived — after a lengthy back-order period, due to the aforementioned disaster at the flag factory — and, as I unwrapped the water-resistant cloth and gazed, up close, upon the bright red, bold blue, and crisp white of our nation's standard, I was reminded why we fly it in the first place.
Our new flag has arrived after a lengthy back-order period, due to the aforementioned disaster at the flag factory and, as I unwrapped the water-resistant cloth and gazed, up close, upon the bright red, bold blue, and crisp white of our nation's standard, I was reminded why we fly it in the first place.
