Right Brain Cinema

When Meg visited we briefly touched on the necessity of discerning and differentiating the visual language of film from the word-bound language of the novel or the poem. We agreed that you probably experience and judge the art differently once you've acclimated yourself to its essential features and values.

Momus points out the same thing on a more basic level:

If comedy [and word-based art in general] makes a concerted rush for the verbal-logical left brain, visual art heads for our primitive, intuitive right brain, a place of pictures, desires, reflexes and instincts.