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Film Perhaps the greatest modern art form is film. Film isn’t as old as say the written word or music, but film has developed as much, if not more prestige in the eighty years sense its creation. The artistic power of films cannot be denied, but even with all that film has going for it film still has its shortcomings as do other artistic mediums. Mainstream films or film culture is often greed oriented. Being money oriented is the worst sin a film maker or a production company can commit, because if all they care about is making a profit then there film is completely devoid of meaning. If a film loses its meaning it ceases to be a film it is then simply a movie. Some people will say that all films even movies are art, this isn’t so. A film or anything for that matter must do two things to be art. The first thing a film must do to be art is to express some kind of meaning, this is a very broad term, but mostly this refers to some kind of theme or message. The second thing a film must do is be indirectly about the artist in some way. This means that the artist has put a piece of his immortal soul in a film for the world to feel and try to understand. If done right you will be able to know the artist personally, but you sh