“the torch” #33 – Idealism in film: or how to generate a visual message

Images arguably hold an immense telling power, they can move us to tears or to action, in some cases achieve both without preaching. What is it about film that invests it with such might, and in our times more than ever before? Is it that we as viewers are just too willing, too much in need of purpose and explanation that we can’t resist but read so much into them? Or does the bottom line message so purposefully visualized effectually come across and give us something we didn’t have on our own up until taking the seat and watching? The give-and-take equation – is it an equilibrium or a one-sided outpouring, influx and consumption of ideas only? And how does it work anyway, idealism in film that is gripping, vehemently entertaining even, but not lofty? Take a look and read up on “The Torch”: here.

(pic©mo)