ABSTRACT

The individual work of art is already an expression; a movie is a movie show and it shows what it has to show. If the movie did require critical or aesthetic concepts for its experience, those should be provided at the box office. With the dissolution of the essence of movies, standards of taste, of correct and incorrect judgments, anyone can make anything he pleases with pleasure. Movies or works of art of whatever sort whose intrinsic meaning is to comment ironically or otherwise upon other works, as in the films of Jean-Luc Godard or Truffault, will be under discussion later. After a long time of movies, but a short time measured by the development of any other art, the movies have settled into a fundamental realism only feebly challenged by the most adventurous of the good commercial directors.