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But apart from Sheedy's melancholic portrayal of the doped-up photographer, the film is said to be "full of itself and its artistic pretension" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ) and saddled with clichéd depictions of bohemianism.
Powell seemed to abhor pretension above practically anything.
Photomontage thumbs its nose at the pretension of the artist playing God, the blank canvas his world.
The Star Wars Elvis was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , a movie that combined cult attraction with intellectual pretension.
Anything too processed might smack of oppression or repression, pretension or hypocrisy, maybe acknowledged alliance with reactionary values, the Margaret Thatcher effect.