Fassbinder's brilliantly sardonic approach decks the future out in high-gloss seventies kitsch (Plexiglas and mirrors, lacquered wood and chrome) and ubiquitous video screens, which reflect, distort, and multiply identities as readily as his panoply of zooms, pans, tracking shots, and shock cuts; his vision of a world out of joint resembles a video game gone haywire.
This reflects a distorted body image, with a desire to have a body type similar to Caucasian women, Korean women tend to prefer a slim body with focus on diet restriction, have a negative effect on muscle development [ 27– 29].
Cloud Gate also known as "the Bean") is a reflective steel sculpture that is inspired by liquid mercury; the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline.
But it also reflects and distorts reality like a hall of mirrors, making it even more difficult for these teenagers to know who they really are.
The word "AIDS" is shown reflected and distorted by clear glass while the word "life" is seen through glass that is thick and fluted.
Like a funhouse mirror, prison reflects and distorts the darkest impulses of women, and of the culture in which they maneuver.
There's the massive, bulbous steel "Cloud Gate" by the British artist Anish Kapoor, whose mirrorlike convex surface reflects and distorts the skyscrapers.
To create them, Mr. Nawa painstakingly maps out where to place each sphere, studying how each reflects and distorts the textures of the deer's coat.
In the case of "Bent of Mind" (2009), the highly polished, rippling stainless-steel surface of the sculpture reflects and distorts the images of everything around it, seeming to draw the viewer into the vortex.
Mr. Schreiber's Barry is an incisive study in a subject that has since become the stuff of endless analysis: the pathology of fame, of what happens to someone who sees himself reflected and distorted in the eyes (or in this case, ears) of multitudes.
