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I believe in poetic cinema.
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The speaker believes cinema can be poetic: it can express ideas and feelings through images, rhythm, atmosphere, and suggestion, not only through straightforward storytelling. “Poetic cinema” treats film as a form of artistic expression that can be felt as well as understood.
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