... the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are like dreams and dreams interpret symbolism in ways science has not even fully discovered yet. The images and symbols within a film are unending and unaccountable. Even the creators of films themselves cannot be aware of ... with the film in an intimate way. The scope of symbols and their unconscious effect is not yet fully realized or defined, although there are dream dictionaries ava...

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... ; Clément, used a visual style deriving from paintings by Vermeer. As a visual artist himself, this heavily influenced Hitchcock to use conventional symbols and colors. In the door scene where James Stewart and Kim Novak are talking, the apartment and apartment door are both red, but different shades. The red of the apartment building is much more faded to give no sense of ... . Influenced by Godard, Penn used a track shot to follow Bonnie and Clyde's conversation. A casual stroll between the two characters which acknowledges them both sharing space. His radical change of camera angles t...

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