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Somebody I know told me quite a number of years ago that he liked movies about things that weren’t real over “real” life movies. He said that people get so used to the “reality” in these “real” movies that they start to see their own life as surreal and the lives they see in the movies as real. I feel like Sontag keeps repeating this in various iterations in her book:
“Knowing a great deal about what is in the world through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when they see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do abound are, largely, not those we have in real life.”
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