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The breaking of the fourth wall


Normally I hate this in film but it was used to such an amazing effect. I got chills you can't even imagine the first time Paul turned to face me and I did a double take. It was so unexpected and so very casual. What did everyone else think? I thought it was very successful at driving the point home.

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"Our lives are one masque ball." ~ Gaston Leroux

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I actually really liked it! When Paul did it first I got such a chill. Great effect.

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when that happened in the movie it kinda struck me that nothing that was going to happen after didn't matter.

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that moment made the film seem like some sort of lucid nightmare. Brilliantly done and it would have been easy to do it in a way that did not work.

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It was great. Startling and creepy and a good way of emphasizing the movie's message.

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