This is, of course, especially true of public art — the art chosen self-consciously by public institutions to symbolize the public order and to inculcate in its viewers appropriate attitudes toward that order.”
Viewers as far apart as Kent, Yorkshire, and Dundee have been phoning in to tell me that instead of the rain I promised yesterday, they've had a downpour of shooting stars!
It does what no other natural-history documentary has done. It forces viewers to acknowledge their own complicity in the destruction of nature, in the moment. It feels sad, but also right.
A combination of vague hints from director Ridley Scott, and all kinds of studio meddling resulted in viewers being split on just what we were supposed to pull from the end of the1982 sci-fi film.