Cinema is being trapped in the dark with an image. Nothing more. No matter the image. The rest is nonsense. There is no theory that can support it.
“Every time I surrender, even necessarily, to authority which disregardingly or contemptuously violates me, so I violate myself. Every time I break an unnecessary law, doing so for my own joy and to the detriment of no other human being, so I regain myself, and become strong in the parts of me that the security man can never see.”
William T. Vollmann