Popular Culture Review Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 2014 | Page 139

The Age of Innocence 135 pov shot during Faust of Newland’s scanning the opera audience with his opera glasses, in which the camera skitters and blinks from face to face, was his attempt to reproduce what the view through binoculars actually looks like: “I was almost literalizing the effect of what it looks like when you look through binoculars . . . . [I]t’s almost a kaleidoscope of images that hits you, you see so many things on the periphery of your eyes. And I just wanted to create a sense of that . . .