Reading Response: Roland Barthes

The text concerning people’s feelings in the cinema really gives me some inspirations. When it talks about “cinema situation”, I can’t help thinking of my experiences in the cinema, feeling hypnotic, and now I know it relates to darkness and the relaxation it triggers. His idea of “two bodies” also shows me a better way to watch and understand a film. For one thing, I can have a narcissistic body lost in the images of the film. But for another, in order to really understand the film, I must have a perverse body not limited by the images. It must

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