ABSTRACT
The Chinese character ic means woman. Now that you know that you will recognize it anywhere, without regard to what other languages or dialects may name it. You do not have to know its Chinese word, or how the sound of that word transliterates into any other language. means femme to a Frenchman, mujer to a Spaniard, and so on through all the world’s tongues. That is the beauty and the advantage of a symbol as opposed to a word. That is also the beauty and the advantage of a film—at its cinematic best.
