No actually, I wouldn't. I'd much rather feel a connection to the people I'm watching on screen, even if it does mean *gasp* having a scene that is somewhat on the "showy" side. Art isn't meant to be objective, so please, filmmakers and screenwriters everywhere, stop overloading us with "naturalism" to the point where we don't feel anything at all. It's beyond irritating at this point.
There's a big difference between the naturalism used in "The Hurt Locker" and that used in "The Class" and many other films: "The Hurt Locker" still manages to make us feel something, even though the performances aren't showy (except for Anthony Mackie's one scene in the humvee). The script and direction still manage to generate feelings of unbelievable tension, as opposed to forcing the audience to just sit and watch through an objective looking glass. In "The Class" on the other hand, the closest we get to any sense of "feeling" are in some of the back-and-forth confrontations between the teacher and his students, but even then, the results are barely engaging. Directors and screenwriters are not scientists, and the characters on the screen are not lab mice to be dealt with clinically from a distance; they are people, and deserve to be treated as such, and no amount of glowing reviews or trophies from film festivals are going to change my mind about that.
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