Blank (i): preclude a connection
- Context: The phrase "That his reality fails to correspond... does not ________ " sets up a Concession. Although the director's reality is strange, this strangeness does not prevent the audience from appreciating the work.
- Fit: Preclude a connection means "prevent or make impossible a connection." The director's subjectivity doesn't stop the audience from engaging.

Blank (ii): solipsism
- Context: The blank describes the director's trait that the audience must "indulge." This trait is defined by the preceding clause: he is "incapable of escaping his own head."
- Fit: Solipsism is the quality of being extremely self-absorbed or the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. This perfectly captures the director's inability to escape his own head and subjective reality.

Blank (iii): presumptions of the world
- Context: The final blank is the audience's perspective that they must "leave at the theater door." This item contrasts with the director's unique reality (his solipsism).
- Fit: The audience must leave behind its "normal" view of the world. Presumptions of the world refers to the audience's fixed ideas, expectations, and assumed reality. To enter the auteur's mind, one must shed one's own normal worldview.

The completed sentence reads:
To view a film by Torneau is to enter the auteur's mind. That his reality fails to correspond in salient ways to that of a "normal" person does not preclude a connection-even if Torneau is incapable of escaping his own head. To appreciate his work, the audience simply has to indulge the director his solipsism and leave at the theater door its own presumptions of the world.