{"id":34,"date":"2007-03-28T21:34:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T02:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/03\/28\/what-is-reality\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T02:34:38","slug":"what-is-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/03\/28\/what-is-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Everyone has their own version of reality.\u00c2\u00a0 This includes filmmakers.\u00c2\u00a0 They create and manipulate our perceptions of reality to suit a purpose, whether it be artistic or monetary.\u00c2\u00a0 Our job as the audience is to decide whether or not we&#8217;re willing to be manipulated.\u00c2\u00a0 I am perfectly willing to be manipulated when it comes to watching a movie.\u00c2\u00a0 The ones I like best are those that I know could never really happen or those that leave me more than a little confused.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, I think there has to be a better word for it than &#8220;reality&#8221; but I just can&#8217;t seem to think of one right now.\u00c2\u00a0 The power of cinema is the ability to alter our perceptions for a short time and escape our current circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember who it was that said that the film\/camera was the only way to capture reality and thus the only pure art form (feel free to jump in as I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0unsure about this) but of course, I totally disagree.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The camera is more like an intruder into reality and because of its presence, is more likely to alter reality and change the natural course of events.\u00c2\u00a0 It interferes with spontaneity.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Everyone has their own version of reality.\u00c2\u00a0 This includes filmmakers.\u00c2\u00a0 They create and manipulate our perceptions of reality to suit a purpose, whether it be artistic or monetary.\u00c2\u00a0 Our job as the audience is to decide whether or not we&#8217;re willing to be manipulated.\u00c2\u00a0 I am perfectly willing to be manipulated when it comes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}