30th January 2005, 1:57 PM
ABF obviously only watches mindless movies and does not understand the medium at all. Because film is a visual medium it opens itself to visual allegory, something that books cannot really do. Movies can contain the same intellectual depth as books as well as the emotional resonance of a painting. No medium is superior to another as each has its own strengths and weaknesses. There have been dozens of books published on the meaning and significance of Citizen Kane alone, and with good reason. To say that film is inherently "dumber" than books because it is a visual medium shows a very limited and ignorant understanding of both mediums. Pictures speak a thousand words, as they say.