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Movies in 2-D

KENNETH TURAN is right in his assessment of why Hollywood movies have been ignored by audiences [“The Piper’s Being Paid,” July 31], but he doesn’t go far enough.

The movies are two-dimensional because two-dimensional people are making films for other two-dimensional people.

Before age 40 you don’t understand how rich, complex, delicious and tragic life is, and it’s moderately entertaining to see something get blown up a couple of times. Once that’s done, you want to sit in the dark and have something artful do for you what art is supposed to do: help illuminate life.

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NANCY LEMAY

Los Angeles

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