I found Bazin's view on the cinema & photography very interesting & enlightening. Never had I thought about the cinema in such detail he had so I enjoyed viewing it in a new light as an art form to reveal life. What he "looked for was kind of spiritual disposition towards reality".
I admire the way he was so faithfully loyal to his cinema motives & beliefs while mixing it with his religion. The author even said he was viewed as a soul like a monk or saint having true widsom and faith. He was very against montage which I found be very odd & random but his reasoning was actually somewhat logical and made sense since it truly isn't realistic nor would we ever see something like that in real life with a flash of images. I like how he predicted having a films studies class in college, that has proved to be true & here we are now reading about him in a college class. I love his idea of the "mummy complex" because I use photography as a means to capture moments in my memories & to be able to reminisce on those times. Lots of realistic movies can still be seen today in our latest movies; however at the same time, many fantasy surreal movies are being made & are more popular than ever before. Cinema has come a long way & has definitely become more realistic over the years with our surround sound, HD, 3D, and special effects, but they've been so successful in creating such reality in the fantasy worlds & surreal movies that people flock to them since it they are something we would never experience otherwise & the movie successfully takes us to a whole new world. I had never heard of Andre Bazin before reading this article but he seems to be a vital part of cinema and its' progression of becoming a reality. He truly had an earnest belief in realistic vocation of film, even after people mocked him & protested against his ideas too.
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