Post by Eλευθερί on May 8, 2017 7:06:31 GMT
I love film's ability to convey emotion and create empathy, catharsis, and enlightenment in the audience. That, along with its extraordinary plasticity, makes it a potential art form of the highest order. (I say potential, because we all know that not all films are art.)
I appreciate the medium's power to entertain, too. But I believe the best films are, at their core, ART DISGUISED as entertainment. For me, there’s no greater magic than that.
If you exclude "documentary" films, amateur films (like from family gatherings), and technical stuff (such as recordings of surgical procedures or legal procedings), I think most of what we usually mean when we are talking about film IS art. It's just that some works of art affect us more profoundly than others do.