Ah, the lens flare.
An exciting effect, a beautiful image,
now reduced to another keystroke in a suite of special effects in the
digital cinematography platform.
I was watching a routine, earnest film
called “Denial,” when, near the end of the movie, the director
Mick Jackson and his cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos, all of a
sudden seemed to have discovered the lens flare. None appeared in the
first 100 minutes of the movie, but in a few scenes in the last 10
minutes? Blue and golden horizontal streaks suddenly appear. It was
as though they had just watched a 'Star Trek' reboot. (A better title
for this earnest melodrama would have been 'Denied!')