The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
“I think all movies, but maybe my movies more than others, are explorations of perception, explorations of the world, and they don’t have, like, pre-chewed answers, so it’s meant to surprise you; it’s meant to put you off-balance. It’s meant to provoke some kind of thought process where you have a dialogue with what’s going on on the screen.“
Olivier Assayas