In the English Patient Michael Ondaatje describes the experience of reading in a way which the film never could:
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awakening from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
And in a way that's not just about books but art with a capital 'A' which of course is about film too. But in some ways its remarkable that this kind of self-referential insertion, describing the experience, is usually reserved for the written word in Art. Of course, Delueze saw the movie as an event which raised the idea that film doesn't just represent ideas but creates them with a capacity to generate concepts rather than simply reflecting them, it is a different kind of narrative (unless you have the kind of authorial intervention that Woody Allen used so playfully). Thoughtfully thinking, musing thoughtfully, here's Joni:
