ABSTRACT
Movies are such an intrinsic part of world culture we often forget to consider just how unique an art form they are. In many ways, we still do not fully understand the mechanism that entices us to suspend our disbelief for a couple of hours to watch a sequence of moving images in a darkened room and take it for a true story unfolding before our eyes. Recalling and comparing images is inherent in the way audiences understand a visual narrative; they constantly make connections not just from what they see within a shot, but also between shots, whether they are shown next to each other or not. All of the images in a film inform, contextualize, and contribute to their collective meaning in a way that is unique to every story, not just because every story is different, but also because every film is told using a unique combination of images.
