There are few things in life that are more clarifying and soul-soothing than to walk onto a Manhattan subway platform and check out a movie poster that’s been graffiti-ized and/or defaced in some way, and to realize in a flash that this — this! — probably represents the final audience-confronting reality, at least more than those reactions from the South by Southwest horror geeks and hyperventilators two or three weeks ago.
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