Mainstream films depart from the original intention of the invention of moving images. They rely heavily on story or plotlines (literature), sound (narration), acting (theater), special effects (technology). This leads to the lost of its uniqueness.
Movies are not possible without the presense of cinema/moving images, yet some people put it as a sceondary/auxiliary element. Film to them is less than an individual art work than a combination of other art forms.
Man with a Moving Camera becomes specacular when the shot firstly displays celloid then the corresponding film. The greatness of cinema is highlighted through this transition (?). From statistic pictures into something that moves. It records the birth of film in another approach. There is no space for story and acting.
Another paragraph from the film is about life & death, happiness & sorrow. The most astonishing one to me would be the one which a woman gives birth. No film I have watched before recorded the real giving birth process. It is indeed the first time I've ever saw it.
Film, or other technologies, can do what human beings can not. We want to make use of it, take advantage of it. The harmony between human and machine creates productivity of the society. This is film, so is the world.
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