Virilio is speaking about distance, a crucial element. Virilio speaks to this distance both physically and perceptually. While both cinema and photography present a perspective, the targets are now hundreds if not thousands of miles away from where they are spotted on a video screen and button is pressed and perceptually they are equally distant.

Virilio draws comparisons between stars and pilots, and between directors and dictators. Comparing the soldier to cinema actors, who can't escape the camera.

No war without representation. Virilio outlines the idea that war is deceptive and an illusion. The war scene was not cut out for its work and Griffith tried to capture war with a very different perception involved and he believed that war and cinema weren't for each other.

Depicting a very empty place with nothing peaceful or unity involved. This is the epitome of war.

The distinction between author and public is about to lose its basic character- at any moment the reader is ready to turn into a writer. Importantly, he makes a distinction between Russia and Western Europe.

He seems to be arguing that the film is more democratic.

Aura- this is a key theme in this passage. The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity. Manual reproduction usually branded as forgery- the original preserved all of its authority. Technological reproduction is more independent of the original than manual reproduction. Aura seems to depend on authenticity and the authenticity of a thing is the 'essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning to the history which it has experienced.'

Walter attempts to explain how the interrelation of art, society and technology have caused the reproduction of art's evolution and given the most common person a change to have their works published and thus raised the culture of the masses. Fine art such as paintings and sculptures is devalued in lieu of the technological advances.

Saying that art was already meant to be copied since humans copy by nature.

( Sentence continues but was cut off) I find this sentence significant as highlights pure art forms that happened in prehistoric times are being exposed and reproduced through film, that it is doing this art justice. Film works as a serviceable vehicle and creates bigger and better understandings for works of hard, even leading to quality transformations and exposing, making it more recognizable.

This phrase is saying that the uses of current technology that are developed from the application of scientific knowledge are being used in ways that can bring out the best in works that normally couldn't be noticed without this use of technology. It has become "independent" by being better off on it's own than the original