Dorsky Devotional Cinema

After reading the article on Devotional Cinema, I can say that I like a lot of what the author says about how cinema seems to have a life of its own and an inherent power to bring health and sickness to those who watch it. One point that I would like to add on to what Dorsky said is that I dont necesarilly think that cinema itself has the power to bbring such emotions to us, but in fact it is our willingness to be manipulated into showing and feelings these emotions that gives us the superstition that cinema has such a power.

One quote that I really like from the excerpt is "We are part of our experience and yet we can see through it. We can see through it, yet we are not free from it. We are both appreciators and victims of material existence." When Dorsky talks about how our every reaction, emotion and movement is not actually our own, I felt that it is both a realistic theory yet also a questionable one too. With different kinds of upbringing different people will believe in different hierarchies of life. For christians there is a belief that, freedom is for all and that every aspect of oneself is derived from ones own choices which will one day be judged by a higher entity called God. Meanwhile for the greek, the common belief is that ones every move and decision is fated, and that there is a destiny one must fulfill. Thus although this theory is a very interesting one I do think that it only applies to a select group of audience.