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Below the surface, the details feel real, even if ripped from “The Hunt for Red October,” but on land, everything is shot with a soft-focus lens and enhanced with way too much CGI.

Fourteen years later, the “Just Like Us” rubric is as gentle as a soft-focus lens.

CHEEVER: Many of the historians we revere in this country write with a kind of sleepy gravitas, a soft-focus lens that leaves out all the interesting things — sex, food, clothes and especially drinking.

When he abandoned the soft-focus lens for one with a sharper focus, it was photography’s equivalent of Bob Dylan going electric.

For Veronika, the '40s were all beautiful music and the caress of a soft-focus lens; the '50s are jangly cowboy songs and cruel chiaroscuro.