‘The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.’ –Oscar Wilde
Is narrative in cinema really dead?
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie—Casablanca, say—and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.
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painting { Chechu Alava, The Romanov, Summer, 2010 }