It’s a question every film critic gets asked: does watching films for a living take the fun out of it? Is the spell broken when you consider the mechanics behind the magic? Can you ever “switch off” in the cinema?
That was three questions, actually; as someone who has been a critic far longer than I have, David Thomson has surely heard many more. Just as knowing how to write hardly devalues the pleasure of reading, however, learning the language of cinema doesn’t impede our susceptibility to its storytelling. To deconstruct is not to destroy.
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