6/10/2023 0 Comments Tension dean koontzWhether in the form of Classical Hollywood Cinema’s deliberately invisible grammar or the deconstruction and radicalism of a filmmaker like Godard, there is something inescapably real about watching bodies in motion in space, making us see things we didn’t see because they made us feel things we definitely felt. So much of the power of film comes from its verisimilitude-something unachievable by the theater or the novel. The camera can only capture what is in front of it, creating a permanent record of a sort of (heavily manipulated) reality, while the editing process gives that record shape and structure and much (if not all) of its meaning. And every cut is a lie.” As with so many Godard quotes, it is enigmatic enough to be unassailably true. Jean-Luc Godard, the John Lennon of the French New Wave (McCartney: François Truffaut Harrison: Éric Rohmer Starr: Roger Vadim), once said (via Le Petit Soldat), “The cinema is truth 24 times a second. “If he wanted to kill you, he'd already have done it.”
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