Beneath the wit there is always an intense emotional reality.
As I say, it is human and healthy to see art as less intense than reality itself.
Although he might say his purpose isn't to turn viewers on but to capture the intense physical reality of adolescent experience, there is more erotic energy floating through his films than in a hundred laboriously obtained orgasms from a pornographic loop.
Merriam-Webster defines surreal as "marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream," with its synonyms being unbelievable and fantastic.
This is a dreamscape, everything bigger, brighter, noisier, drenched in life and color... but that's perfectly appropriate here, since the entire narrative is couched as Nick Carraway looking back on a formative time in his life, and dreams are always more intense than reality.
The watch design may be a response to users who say they would be "uncomfortable" with the intense augmented reality experience of Google Glasses, as well as to reports that the glasses, last week tested by the Wall Street Journal's Spencer Ante, were "disorienting".
Andy got an even more intense dose of reality fame than the one supplied by PBS: his weepy singing audition became a viral meme.
The star's physical image was just as painstakingly manufactured, easily fulfilling the Disney dictums postulated by the cultural historian Thomas Hine in his classic study "Populuxe": "No natural aging is allowed in Disneyland.... Everything must be artificial so that this more intense feeling of reality can be achieved".
The characters are ten times as strange as fictional characters; the tensions are ten times as intense as any reality show, because none of it is coerced into being by the filmmakers.
Immersive systems are purported to be more effective because they provide a more intense feeling of reality; however, they may provoke "cybersickness" (symptoms such as vomiting, dizziness) in some participants [ 22].
