The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
Language is much closer to film than painting is.
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.
Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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