You’re not tricking me into believing I’m in the movie. I never bought that because I can still see the edges of the screen and the rest of the theater. Proponents of 3D talk about immersing the viewer in the film. The side projection also allows the film to play additional visuals during the end credits. Although, other side scenes were perfectly clear. There can be some blur when action crosses from the center into the sides, which suggests to me an accurate depiction of peripheral vision, not a virtual reality with a clear view no matter where you look. You’ll want to sit near the rear so you can take in the entire periphery, although I don’t think you’re supposed to look directly at the sides. It’s more than one single screen can convey. That’s when ScreenX kicks in and you’re right in the middle of that do or die moment, and can see how many desperate souls are hoping for salvation. Rather than make it a gimmick in a scene like that, ScreenX later expands a big meeting of the mine workers plotting their rebellion. Even though it’s exposition, you could look around and see background players “enjoying” the party. I was thinking a party scene could have worked with ScreenX. Once the caves are established, they don’t need to project the full caves every time, only when there’s a collapse and the disaster needs to feel overwhelming, like there’s no escape anywhere you turn. So interior dialogue scenes won’t have you looking around the room. The ScreenX extensions are used strategically so you don’t get used to it or take it for granted. The film’s climactic escape surrounds you with action too. When the film dips underwater, you can’t look away for relief from drowning. It immerses you in the ocean, surrounding you with water everywhere you look, just as if you were stranded in the real ocean. The opening of the film lowers us into the mines with them, and we are surrounded by descending rock walls on either side. The Battleship Island is a harrowing World War II story about Hashima, a Japanese prison camp for Koreans. Remember in The Dark Knight when the Joker blew up the Gotham City hospital, and the screen expanded up and down so the fire overtook you? Well, ScreenX doesn’t tower over you, but rather extends to the walls of the theater to envelop you. Like Hollywood feature films shot in IMAX, only select portions of the film extend into the left and right side. Currently, Los Angeles’s ScreenX theater is showing the Korean film The Battleship Island, so I checked it out both as a fan of Asian films and interested in the format. ScreenX is a new movie format that projects on the side walls of the theater to extend the screen.
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