They shared a craftsmanly, neatness-counts aesthetic, and they used the illusion of realism to create an ideally ordered alternative world.
Both genres employed the narrator as protagonist and used "the illusion of presence in their mode of signification".
This may be true on the surface, but the U.S. government has been known to use the illusion of good intentions to mask its more pressing agenda, that of preserving American hegemony abroad and maintaining the status quo at home.
Recent thinking that has discredited the classic concept of secularism as the separation of church and state, redefining it as a state-building project that uses the illusion of separation to regulate and define religion to maintain state sovereignty.
Rather, he uses the illusion-making powers of the medium to propose, politely if also mischievously, an alternative way of seeing things.
Like a number of other young directors -- examples include Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction"), Christopher Nolan ("Memento") and Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") -- Ms. Sprecher uses the cinematic illusion of sequentiality to keep us off balance.
True, there's nothing new about artists using deception -- the illusion of perspective, for example, or tricks of light -- to reveal a higher truth.
Except, I've already acknowledged that mistake: The second [big mistake] was circa 2003, over the Bush administration's use of the illusion of victory in Iraq to push through more tax cuts, even though the optimistic budget projections used to justify the first round had proved completely wrong.
Two matte set-ups were used for effects, including one used to create the illusion of depth with Neill's character in the foreground and the aliens in the background.
With much less tact, I explained that, indeed, mispricing of assets at an inflated price could have been deliberately used to create the illusion of value, and this could then have been used to create the very real rewards of wealth for the financial engineering wizards responsible for the scheme.
