One of my favorite things in it was the lens flares. Abrams was talking in an interview about how he had this idea that the future was so bright it could scarcely be contained; he also admitted that they got totally carried away with the lens flares and there are parts of the film he watches now where he thinks that they went a bit overboard. But because they did them live with off-camera lights, mirrors and filters rather than digital, they couldn't remove them after the fact, nor could they control exactly how they flared. Anyway, it gives the film a very distinct look; I can't recall any other film that uses them in the same way.
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