Jim Morrison
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Jim Morrison had an ambiguous tone when speaking about cinema. He seems to create many paths, each ending at a different point of view: all depending on how you interpret what he wrote. It's my opinion that Jim Morrison wasn't as much as trying to categories the art of cinema as a good or bad thing, but more as trying to describe what it is, what it does, why its invincible, why people watch it and why people will continue to watch it.
Jim Morrison says, "Cinema is the most totalitarian of the arts. Film confers a kind of spurious eternity." Which from my point of view is describing where it lies in popularity by saying it's the most totalitarian and what kind of reality it transcends, by stating it's spurious. In lines five through nine he states "Each film depends upon all others and drives you on to others. Cinema was a novelty, a scientific toy, until a sufficient body of works had been amassed, enough to create and intermittent other world, a powerful, infinite mythology to be dipped into at will." Which says that the reason cinema is so strong that there is so much of it, that at first it was just an experiment that became so real as if to transform its self into this other world allowing viewers to escape from the real world whenever they want, that's the main reason people watch films. A major reason that cinema is so dominant is that it creates and faade which seems never ending, which Jim Morrison put as "Film have and Illusion of timelessness, fostered by their regular, indomitable appearance...