FILM HISTORY page three, chapter one.
James Williamson's writings as early as 1901 had already explained the type of function that the movie must have in its future development, and that it was of a certain dialectical significance.
If the film had simply swallowed the image, rather than chewing on it away from the camera at the end, then the work would have been limited to a kind of cinematic entertainment, after all, such a simple idea would only have preserved a certain distance from the self-reflexive nature of cinema as an art in its own right, but the backward passage at the end very accurately brings the viewer back to the dimension of a cinematographic non-reality experience, and not only does the viewer who was startled by the strange style of the first half of the film, but also the viewer who was shocked by the strange style of the first half of the film. It's not only a relief for those who were startled by its strange style in the first half of the film, but it also makes the viewer start to think that it's just a movie. This is the self-reflexivity of the image, shown with subtlety early on.
It is a fresh exploration of the boundaries of cinematic art by mankind.
James Williamson's writings as early as 1901 had already explained the type of function that the movie must have in its future development, and that it was of a certain dialectical significance.
If the film had simply swallowed the image, rather than chewing on it away from the camera at the end, then the work would have been limited to a kind of cinematic entertainment, after all, such a simple idea would only have preserved a certain distance from the self-reflexive nature of cinema as an art in its own right, but the backward passage at the end very accurately brings the viewer back to the dimension of a cinematographic non-reality experience, and not only does the viewer who was startled by the strange style of the first half of the film, but also the viewer who was shocked by the strange style of the first half of the film. It's not only a relief for those who were startled by its strange style in the first half of the film, but it also makes the viewer start to think that it's just a movie. This is the self-reflexivity of the image, shown with subtlety early on.
It is a fresh exploration of the boundaries of cinematic art by mankind.