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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and our language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Can an image create a future? Can a word create a future? Most emphatically, ‘yes’, I would say. Moreover, not only can words and images create a future, they are the only means of future creation. They are that important because they are that close to our creation of meaning. Thus, it makes perfect sense to look to word and image in its most voluminous form—film—to see suggestions of what some of …