Rob Dufour - Aesthetics of Film

While I was looking throughout one of our texts, Aesthetics of Film, I found a section that looked particularly interesting which was titled “Every Film is a Fiction Film.” The section starts out by saying that the main characteristic of a fiction film is that it represents something imaginary through a story. We are told that the fiction film consists of a double representation through it representing a fictional situation, but also through the film itself being images of a representation of the intended story. So it is fiction due to the nature of the story and through the way in which it represents the story. So this tells us that a film is seen as fiction despite if the story is fiction or non-fiction, because naturally the visual representation of a movie is inherently fictional. Our text tells us that that which represents or signifies is indeed real and exists even though what it represents is fictional. In the cinema, both the representer and the represented are fictional. So, in this sense, every film is a fiction a film.