1. Bazin claims cinema satisfies our obsession with realism.
... exist. The Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971) visually is real. We see real people, real objects yet, the story and situations are so ludicrous that they could not even begin to be real; but perhaps we are creating a reality in another sense. Film shows us worlds which although they could fit into the category of realism, may not be realistic ... . From that point, the rest of the film seems perfectly feasible despite being entirely based in fantasy. Of course the dinosaurs we see on the screen were not actually there walking with the actors and we are well aware of this, but...
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