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Why do we love cinema so much?

Because it is one of our greatest mirrors. In the stories it tells us are portrayed our dreams, illusions, hopes, fears, fantasies, demons, longings, goodness, in other words, the whole spectrum of the human being. Besides the fact that cinema is like dreams, the screen is the eyelids on which our films are projected. The night, the camera obscura, the projection, and the animated movement incite our senses into action. All thanks to the powerful imagination, that secret weapon, the engine of human history. Things are first imagined, then realised. In cinema, one imagines first, and its marvellous challenge is to turn the imagined into reality. And there seem to be no limits. Patrick Harpur points out in El fuego secreto de los filósofos (Ed. Atalanta. 2nd ed. Spain 2006. P. 72): “In Renaissance Florence, and again among the English and German Romantics three centuries later, the imagination was exalted not only as the most important human faculty, but as the very foundation of reality”. Nothing more, nothing less, the most important human faculty. And quality cinema provides such possibilities for the imagination to soar. For Albert Einstein “Imagination is more important than knowledge” (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Feyerabend ). A gift that needs to be nurtured, nourished and developed in each of us.

Cinema is the possibility to match our imaginative power with that of the great creators that exist in the world, the only condition is to approach intelligent, sensitive films that seek the best for human beings, that try to improve their living conditions.

Even if cinema is not exactly like reality, which is impossible, it is the genre that always starts from reality and returns to it, influencing it, reinterpreting it, enriching it, questioning it. Its great power consists in the fact that it is capable of entertaining, educating and feeding our imagination, and this, to some extent or a great extent, depending on the case, has a verifiable influence on our real world. Culture can be concretised in a very concrete praxis, a conscious and critical way of acting in life, in everyday life, in the family, in society. Cinema is a supreme space for fostering the imagination, nourishing it and projecting it throughout the cinemas and homes of the planet. And, as Mario Vargas Llosa says, “imagination is free and nourishes ideas. It promotes a critical attitude towards reality. Fiction is a subversive genre”.

In cinema we have a very powerful tool, and nowadays, with the development of communication technologies, we have the possibility of making our own films. They will be homemade, yes, but with study, dedication, culture and talent, we can create interesting works that are the beginning of more developed works. There are countless scriptwriters and film directors in the world who have started in this way. Today’s technologies give us the possibility to be creators, not just consumers, and that is a very important step for our social environment. Moreover, it is where the most interesting possibility lies to make quality cinema far away from the commercial cards that reproduce the vested interests that are already boring and repetitive enough, always with barbies and kens who don’t know how to act, cinema controlled by mafias who are the children of the children of the children of the children of the sacred cows, and who offer the public flabby works, without spark or talent. They are the negation of cinematographic possibilities that, in a negative way, comply with the postulate put forward in this text: cinema is a reflection of what we are, for better or for worse, at the level of production or at the level of mass consumption. Hence the permanent need to exercise criticism and evaluate what we are producing, what cinema we are watching, why, with what results, both individual and social. We cannot watch cinema as if it were nothing, as if it were a vacuous, anodyne entertainment. Everything we consume on an intellectual and emotional level has repercussions on our persons and our actions.

Cinema is not a neutral tool. We must always ask ourselves who produces, from what social position and with what intentions. Cinema has been an artistic tool, a tool for human development, but it has also been used to alienate, indoctrinate and manipulate the masses. Examples can be found in all social systems, both capitalist and communist.

But cinema can also be, depending on its quality and objectives, a source of union and understanding between human beings. It can help us to understand others, the other, the different. Documentary film is a great example of this. And, to the extent that empathy is developed, different societies and different cultures can understand each other better, help each other, pacify each other, cooperate. This helps to eliminate and diminish supremacist proposals of any kind.

Cinema cannot solve the world’s problems, but it can cooperate in the development of awareness and solidarity among the different peoples of the world. Seeing ourselves reflected on the cinema screen and seeing others there helps us to understand many issues, cultures and places that we would never see without film.

And while it is true that cinema is an alteration of reality because cameras do not operate by themselves and always obey a point of view, an ideology or an assumed or unconscious political position, it is also true that depending on what and for whom it is interpreting reality, so will be the quality of the product consumed and its influence. The reception of a message depends on many factors, it is a complex phenomenon that depends not only on the sender, but also on the dialectic relationship between sender and receiver and the interaction of their respective contexts.

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