After reading this article I learned that Bazin is against most things that film stands for today. He believes that the director should be invisible, inevitably hiding artistic vision. He believed that films that stayed true to reality were true to god. His philosophy is interesting- "the mummy complex" which is the human need to halt time by embalming it in an image- and after reading this I understood why he had this perspective for film. I agree with it for certain things, but to extend it to the entire film industry would destroy it. His extreme realist view is such a contrast to modern day art films. It is almost the exact opposite to what is considered "good film."