To have a regard for reality does not mean that what one does in fact is pile up appearances. On the contrary, it means that one strips the appearances of all that is not essential, in order to get at the totality in all its simplicity.

Reject everything about the real that does not become true.

always verify, against empiricism and with Platonism, that the visible, apparent face of what is certain (like Saint Thomas, we must see to believe), is in reality only a particular aleatory index of the real. And consequently, in the cinema: verify that this artifice – cinema – seriously tests philosophy by imposing a variation of the regime of the sensible. In sum, verify that cinema has at its disposal a certain aptitude for the concept, whence it has the power of making visibly uncertain the certainty of the visible. Or again: of showing that the image is only a semblance, or even a semblance of image.