Elizabeth, there are no Rules!

There is a terrible past of a hundred years in which bad people tried to
formulate rules, whose effect was merely to stop people from opening
their eyes. (I could go on for a thousand pages giving examples.)

There is no canon. There is no agreement. There are no accepted
definitions or even a vocabulary.

You have to forge out for yourself and discover the movies you love and
then discover your own ways of dealing with them.

(Of course I don't want to discourage you from reading MY writings.
But, seriously, you have to find your own way.)


Elizabeth Nolan wrote:

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> I'm not so much looking for a reductionist view of cinema as an
> understanding of the RULES OF THE GAME...and since those rules are
> often applied randomly or not at all, it is hard to grasp them.