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Seeing for ourselves — the whole secret lies there. The newspapers can lie. The radio
can lic.
The image, on the other hand. can never lie; it is Reality, it is Truth. More than
that — it has
gained credit for what speech and wniting have lost. Anyone who has ever taken a
photograph
or has been photographed knows it all too well. This conviction, this absolute
confidence in
what the eyes have seen, 1s so deeply ingrained in our minds that we must make an
effort to
keep our cnitical mind on track.
On the screen, a man is on the run. Behind him, a few police officers follow, they
are faster
than he is, they are gaining on him. The fugitive, an evildoer no doubt, is going to
be caught,
surely. But the focus widens to suddenly deliver the object of the pursuit — everyone
was
nuinning to catch the bus. We had seen an impending arrest, we had already imagined a
whole
story. This is the most classic and the simplest example of true images that impose a
false
idea. a misconcepuon.
Or else: the cameraman who, as he records a ceremony or an official trip, shows an
immense
and enthusiastic crowd by carefully aiming his lens at the cheenng squad, or who, on
the
contrary, lingers on the voids of an audience that thus seems ridiculous,
spotlighting a handful
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