There could be thousands of reasons why people enjoy films. Still, there is one thing in common for all of them: in a movie, everyone can experience an unrealizable life, visit an unreachable place, break the fetters from space and time, and do whatever one wants. The article by Roland Barthes embodies it as an illusory feeling. Interestingly, the author used a lot of descriptive words and metaphors when he was trying to narrate the illusion, including the surroundings in a cinema, the feelings, the atmosphere, etc., instead of expositing concepts and theories behind it directly from a scientific perspective. That makes his own emotion be easier to relate to readers. Besides, the refreshing title “Leaving the Movie Theatre”, rather than in the movie theatre or others, emphasizes the aftertaste of a film. The emotional interaction with readers starts from the beginning.
In the second material, Walter Benjamin thought the technological reproducibility of artworks unavoidably devalues their authenticity by weakening their uniqueness during reproduction. However, nearly fifteen years have passed, and progress has been made on this problem in recent years. With increasingly faster technological iterations, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum were invented, followed by Non-Fungible Token (NFT), where blockchain technology can ensure the safety of transactions. Collecting works of art by NFT is popular these days, as the uniqueness and irreplaceability of artworks coincide with the essence of NFT. Each piece has been authenticated via blockchain and carries a non-replicable digital signature, allowing the purchaser to confirm the uniqueness of their collection, while others can see only a digital copy of the picture. Therefore, I think it is a quite good solution for protecting the authenticity of works of art during technological reproduction.
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