On Film vs Digital

Film captures and transfers an image; gently masking it. The celluloid creates a textured overlay that distorts and deceives our vision of the image being captured. Digital capture, however sees the image only as lines of 1's and 0's. This data is captured, cataloged and ready to be played back at our choosing. It is hard, binary, and strict. But the method of capturing the image is wholly irrelevant; as irrelevant of the plot of a film or its "message". How we perceive and view the images, that's what matters. Its up to us to strip away anything covering what we see onscreen. The capturing process, whatever it is, gets in the way of the images. To actually glean the images we must make ourselves vulnerable; allowing ourselves to be moved, compelled, and fooled. The systematic flashing of diodes and pixels on the screen should be no less compelling or absorbing than the projection of light through a strip of celluloid.