"How does film theory and the influence of movies impact people's thinking?

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The composition of great audiovisual works holds something intriguing: the way directors
convey emotions, desires, questions, and thoughts in their films, causing the audience to
identify with characters, plots, dialogues, and perspectives about the world. The history of
world cinema began on December 28, 1895, when the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis,
presented the world's first cinematic exhibition. However, several inventions were necessary
to achieve this outcome.

The capturing of moving images, which enabled the Lumière brothers' presentation, only
became possible with the invention of the kinetoscope in 1889 by William Dickson. The
subsequent evolution of these inventions shaped what we now refer to as cinema. Starting in
1895, the Lumière brothers held various exhibitions of their invention, short sessions that
garnered significant interest at the time. One of their earliest films depicted a train arriving at
a station, inciting fear in the viewers of that time, who were afraid that the train might leave
the screen and run them over. This event demonstrates cinema's power to evoke feelings in
viewers and alter their perception of things. Gilles Deleuze, in "Cinema 1: The
Movement-Image"1 and "Cinema 2: The Time-Image"2 argues that cinema not only reflects
reality but also creates it, generating new modes of thought and influencing how we perceive
time, movement, and reality.

After numerous advancements, films have undergone several changes but maintained the
objective of entertaining the audience. This is achieved through technical factors such as
framing, color schemes, and soundtracks, as well as social and cultural elements like
adapting crucial historical moments and presenting unique depictions of daily life to captivate
the audience. Moreover, cinema also serves as a mean of protest by bringing relevant
issues to the world and urging society to change. Thus, film theory and the influence of
movies utilize these elements to their advantage, creating a way to influence people. This is
the inherent power of movies.

1
"Cinema 1: The Movement-Image" (1983) is the first of two books on cinema written by Gilles
Deleuze.
2
"Cinema 2: The Time-Image" (1988) is the second book in the duology written by Gilles Deleuze.