rec.arts.movies.past-films

On 8-Sep-2007, smacked up and reeling, El Klauso
blindly formulated
the following incoherence:

> The running of a film in silence simply does not fully engage the
> brain.
>
> Image and sound are processed in numerous different parts of the
> brain; Not to employ sound in the mental exchange of viewing a film is
> to lose important brain cross-connection links keyed to that
> particular viewing experience.

> It all has to do with the manner in which we process - The more vivid
> and complete the sensate experience, the more sectors of the brain are
> employed, the more vivid the memories and comprehension of the viewed/
> heard material.

I find this rather fascinating, but wonder if it's accurate given that it
definately does NOT comport with my experience. But I must confess that is
took me quite some time (a dozen or more films) to become comfortable
watching silent films at all, and only truly comfortable after I decided to
kill all soundtracks. And, as I said, my wife refuses to watch in silence
because it puts her to sleep.

Perhaps we dont all process sensory input in quite the same manner.

steve
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