The invention of photograph and film have allowed people to produce a representation of facts. Photographs mediate perception and present materical in an objective fashion. Although early documentary film turned out to be a catastrophe because it became an adverisement and doesnt tell all truth. Film can be minipulated to make you think in a certain way by means of certain presention of the footage.
This idea is very similar to Sontag in the fact that they both are basically saying that images we a presented with consume our reality. The images we are presented with during a film make us believe and feel in certain ways. Filmmakers can purposely envoke emotion like sympathy by choosing to present certain material in a certain order.
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