Framework
I plan on being critical of cinema on this blog. In order to do that without the world wanting my anonymous body dead, there's a going to be framework in which I instill whenever I do my analysis or criticism. Film is a complex medium and without a framework for criticism my writing would be impartial and inconsistent. Sontag once said in her essay A gainst Interpretation, "From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art. We can only quarrel with one or another means of defense.". This is exact idea is why film criticism is complex, it's all biased in one way or another and arguing is more about the individual then about the art itself. I am not here to defend my words just give an idea of how I view things when writing. The first principle I want to focus on is this idea of showing and not telling. How this is applied is thinking how the work uses the medium. In a painting it is entirely visual, in a podcast it auditory,