Reflection of reflection

As being a primary inventipn of cinema, photography and picture have really important role both in real life and for cinema. It was somekind a documentation of real life. It helped to document time itself. How it passes?, What changes does it bring?, How things shaped within the time? and so on. However being only a document was not enough for people and by adding some movement cinema has risen. Although it is believed that cinema or photography is the reflection of real life, it is just a hallucinations. As Bazin indicates cinema is a thing that it is hallucinations and at the same time it is the fact. This situation is not peculiar to cinema. Real life itself is something that we never can be sure about it’s reality. For example according to Platon, this life that we live is a reflection of the realm of ideas. We are living not in the reality but the reflection of it. Art is the reflection ofthe reflection according to him. If he could see the cinema he would be really happy as the cinema is the form that he was trying to explain with his cave allegory. Cinema would be a perfect example of the mechanism he was talking about.

Moreover, according to lots of continential philosopher and especially Kant thinks that objects noumena can never be known. All we can know its phenomenalogical apeearence. The reality of the objects is in their noumena and we can have clues about their reality by experiencing their phenomena.

The reality of the life we live in was debated by many philosophers and the answer that gave was that we can never be sure of its reality but assume it as real. Maybe we assume cinema as real as we assume our lives. As it is said repeatedly cinema is the reflection of life. In this point reflection of it remains as both hallucination and fact as the object that it reflects is both hallucination and fact.