Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of…

Umberto Eco
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Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). Travels in Hyperreality, p.209, HMH
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