I really enjoyed Bazin's view on cinema and his way of seeing it as stopping time in an image. His faith in religion tied into his view as shown in his observation that there are, "Those directors who put their faith in the image and those who put their faith in reality."
His idea that cinema and photography are trying to be as close to reality as possible can be seen to this day. So many movies use high technology to produce the best realistic effects and films. But sometimes I feel they can go overboard with the effects and the result is a pretty movie with a horrible script. While Bazin's prediction that cinema's 'art of reality' would be at its "final level" in 2000 may have come true, I personally think it came true only visually. However, he also said that, "If cinema ever could succeed in becoming the exact double of reality, it would also fail." Cinema is never supposed to be perfect but through cinema's search for a perfect reality, it becomes a "mission is to reveal life."
That mission is similar to what we do as an artist and I can suddenly relate to Bazin and his ideas.
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