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Seen from a certain angle, the cinema has all the appearances of what it is not. It is apparently a kind of language (une sort de langage), but it was seen as something less, a specific language system (une langue). It allows, it even necessitates, a certain amount of cutting and montage; its organization, which is so manifestly syntagmatic, could only be derived, one believed, from some embedded paradigmatic category, even if this paradigmatic category was hardly known. Film is too obviously a message for one not to assume that it is coded. (Metz, p.40.)
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