The Age of Innocence
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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 . . .