:54:45
Cinema, in its essence,
:54:48
is about reproduction
of reality,
:54:50
which is that, like,
reality is actually reproduced.
:54:54
And for him, it might sound like
a storytelling medium, really.
:54:57
And he feels like, um--
like film--
:55:00
Like-- like literature
is better for telling a story.
:55:04
And if you tell a story
or even like a joke--
:55:06
"This guy walks into a bar
and sees a dwarf."
:55:10
That works really well
because youre imagining this
guy and this dwarfing this bar.
:55:14
And it's an imaginative
aspect to it.
:55:17
In film, you don't have that because you
actually are filming a specific guy...
:55:20
in a specific bar
with a specific dwarf...
:55:23
- of a specific height who
looks a certain way, right?
- Mm-hmm.
:55:25
So like, um, for Bazin, what the
ontology of film has to deal--
:55:29
it has to deal
with, you know, with--
:55:31
- Photography also has an ontology,
- Right.
:55:33
except that it adds
this dimension of time to it...
:55:36
and this
greater realism.
:55:38
And so,
it's about that guy...
:55:41
at that moment
in that space.
:55:43
And, you know, Bazin
is, like, a Christian,
:55:46
so he, like, believes
that, you know--
:55:48
in God, obviously,
and everything.
:55:51
For him, reality and God
are the same. You know, like--
:55:54
And so what film is actually capturing
is, like, God incarnate, creating.
:55:59
You know, like this very moment,
God is manifesting as this.