I found this article to be very interesting, mostly because I liked reading about the way Bazin mistrusted and questioned everything. I definitely enjoyed the way he challenged photography, claiming that "it is first of all a sensory datum and only later perhaps a work of art". I also enjoyed the idea of cinema never succeeding at becoming an exact double of reality. His criticism of montage made me almost laugh at the ridiculousness when he said it supported propagandist messages, but at the same made me stop to think that there may be some truth behind that statement, especially when you think of the way film tries to render the real. I also thought that it was interesting that Bazin predicted cinema in 2000 would be free of the artificial, since some of the most popular movies and shows on tv are done with computers, such as Transformers. Nonetheless, I can understand why his opinions were attacked by some intellectuals and revered by others. I definitely respect his faith in his own opinion, however, and I liked the way his ideas challenged my way of thinking.
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