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has abruptly darkened with sinister portents."
Favorite portents: the formation of the state of Israel, the end of the millennium, the continued reign of Saddam Hussein, and black helicopters ("swarming locusts" to the prophets).
The bleached, posterized cinematography (by Ellen Kuras) makes the images seem cooked, even irradiated, and Lee brings out the eerie portents in the throbbing blandness of disco groups such as Abba.
But what if beyond the Y2K come the real portents of drama?
The Irish Times observed that "[e]clipses used to be about soothsaying and portents of disaster.