Like a film speeded up, like a film slowed down?
Reality is nothing at all like a film. Film makes everything unreal, turning the oceans of the world into a fish tank. It turns the world into a zoo. We watch from the other side of the barrier. But, unlike a zoo, there is no living entity behind the screen. We could not step through that screen into the world that lies behind it like some religious nutter stepping into the lion enclosure.
So, film and its bastard offspring TV are nothing like the real. A moving - and it always has to be moving - constantly shifting image. We can't step into the frame and take the Mona Lisa by the hand. Nor can we touch someone in a photograph.
What is real in the image? What is the image in the real?
These are questions - television, film, and photographs show events - actual moments - unless manipulated - that happened, whether real or fictional. A painting may have never happened, probably didn't.
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