For others, arguments about cinematic truth have become political arguments carried out by other means.
The recent fuss over "Avatar," the James Cameron film in which the latest in cinematic technology meets the oldest argument in the movies: whether vice on screen encourages vice in real life.
The second argument was that the cinematic view is incompatible with the Laplacean view that the past determines the present.
But the weirdest and most cinematic thing about ZCash is not abstruse arguments about relative efficacy: it's the esoteric ceremony with which it had to be initiated, after which occult secrets had to be destroyed.
In asking how strong are the arguments in favour of this well-crafted position, we return to Priest's three arguments against the rival, consistent, extrinsic, cinematic view.
When Ms. Haskell turns to the more cinematic aspects of "Gone With the Wind," however, her arguments have more bite.
"I'm not allowed to talk about that," she says firmly, with a beautifully neutral smile and only the merest hint of an eye roll, although she does reject the argument that societal violence can be blamed on cinematic villains.
The site's critical consensus reads, "It's difficult to make a persuasive argument for The Mummy as any kind of meaningful cinematic achievement, but it's undeniably fun to watch".
"Measured in tone and outraged in its argument, it is an emotionally stirring, at times crushingly depressing cinematic call to witness.
Brandon and Michele's road trip provides some cinematic and dramatic opportunities — resonant encounters in run-down motels; tearful arguments and episodes of random violence; a frisson of sexual tension — but it is, literally and metaphorically, a journey to nowhere.
