"But here, you're setting up a binary opposition, which looks an awful lot like a straw man. Surely we can say something meaningful?"
Of course we can, Bill, but not because we set out to. Setting out to convey one meaning/doctrine is where the binary opposition is set up—not in the recognition of that fatal split in work that is crippled by it from the outset.
Tarkovsky again:
"In a word, the image is not a certain meaning, expressed by the director, but an entire world reflected as in a drop of water."
"The function of image, as Gogol said, is to express life itself, not ideas or arguments about life. It does not signify life or symbolize it, but embodies it, expressing its uniqueness."
"The lines are beautiful, because the moment, plucked out and fixed, is one, and falls into infinity."
Nemo
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