The movie is highly pictorial, but kinematically it is 
discontinuous and non-visual, and thus demands 
participation. This discontinuous quality has been 
very much played up in such movies as The  
Seventh Seal  and Blow Up , to name only two in a 
rapidly developing métier. A movie is a succession 
of discrete images which are separated by 
extremely small spans of time. Because of their 
rapid succession, the images are fused in the 
conscious mind and appear connected. Our 
relatively recent insights into the power of the 
preconscious in both the creation and 
apprehension of works of art indicate the 
subliminal is in fact a strong force in psychic