In his book, King refers to his preference to use the term " aesthetic distance " rather than psychic distance, as he feels the latter term has misleading connotations in current usage.
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He says though " Your Friends and Neighbors " might keep viewers at " an appropriate aesthetic distance, " they can't help but be caught up in what's happening onscreen because " it uses human beings ."
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David Mamet in " On Directing Film " asserts that any direct depiction of graphic sex or violence in film is an inherent violation of aesthetic distance, as audience members will instinctively make judgments as to whether or not what they just saw was real, and thus be pulled out of the story-telling.
