The director must create a seamless vision that casts a spell on the moviegoer, allowing her to forget for the duration, that she is actually watching a movie.
People go to the movies to get lost, willingly, in the world created by the film.
I just couldn't wait to get out. It is 1950, and the setting is Amity Island off the coast of Wash-ington, a community heavily populated with Japanese immigrants. Miyamoto returns from serving the United States in World War II only to find that the farmland promised to him by the Heine family has been sold in his absence. When fisherman Carl Heine is mysteriously drowned, Miyamoto becomes the obvious suspect. The movie works best in the central sections when the Japanese-American citizens of Amity Island are shuffled off to the internment camp at Manzanar for the duration of the war.