Sam Mendes, Roger Deakins, a slew of good actors - if only Empire of Light's ode to The Movies didn't feel false so often. aurora_amidon's review:
, projectionist Norman explains the science of movie magic to theater worker Hilary . He tells her about the illusion of movement, the number of frames that occur per second and, of course, the importance of that beam of light.
, for example, the description of the inner workings of a projector provides a young boy with his life’s purpose. In Giuseppe Tornatore’s beloved, a similar exchange illustrates the palpable weight that a simple dream can hold. Almost all of the time, a “How It Works: The Movies” scene is meant to convey one thing at its core: Cinema is a beautiful, magical thing., however, the presence of cinema is a little less straightforward.
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