Andrei TarkovskyNo other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.
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Cinema has the power to express awareness, meaning it can bring together events in time by using time as a space. Because cinema uses time as a space, it can convey how humans are affected by the passage of time. More specifically, it conveys how humans are affected by the passage of life and death. The movie Casablanca shows two people falling in love, only to lose each other because of time. It could be said that they fell in love in time; because they fell in love in time, they lost each other due to the passage of time.
Source: Sculpting In Time
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