I would like to reflect and analyze film viewing. I cannot capture it all here because It is a complex act. but trying to describe it briefly.

First of all, what kind of positing is involved in watching a movie? Suppose you are enjoying a sci-fi action movie. If we observe the intentional process at this time, we can observe actional (sitting down, rewinding the movie) , cognitive (recognizing the actors' names,hints of story) and valuational (feelings of fear, pleasure) elements in this encounter.

It is possible for one of these elements to dominate in movie watching. When checking for such details as subtle facial expressions and gestures by actors, buildings in background , extras, screen composition, cinematography and homage etc, the cognitive element dominates in the intentional process but willingl and valuing are subordinate. However, when watching a film, we tend to immerse ourselves in the world of the work, so this kind of encountering that can be called studing film requires an effort to dare to do so.

In the next we will focus our discussion on live-action film and analyse the layer of the experience. First,The representational experience is dominant in the film viewing. While watching a movie, the lowest layer of the encounter is visual perception, in which we see areas of color and shape projected on the screen. These areas then resemble the depicted such as natural objects, man-made objects, and even the human body. But whose body is it? It could be the actor's, or if it is fiction, it could be the character's one. The two are clearly distinguishable. For example, in an action movie, when a character is shot , the actor who plays the person is not really wounded. In addition, the spatial relationship between the camera and the actor's body is also represented in the image. For example, if the actor's back is shown on the screen, we know that the camera was behind the actor when the scene was shot. However, there is no such relationship between the camera and the bodies of the characters of the film. When we watch a film, especially while immersed in the world of it, we experience the fictional world, rather than experiencing the film set that once existed.

It is possible to become aware of the actors themselves while viewing. When I saw Top Gun Maverick in the cinema, I saw a close-up of Tom Cruise's face and thought he was getting older. To cite another example, if a middle-aged actor plays a role that is supposed to be a high school student in the film, I would be clearly aware of the actor playing the role. Thus, when we observe my intentional process of watching a fiction film, we find an experience about the actor who actually existed and an experience about the role being played. When a fictional film begins, my attention usually turns to the characters and the world of the film. This is probably because this is how we have learned to view movies. This relationship between the fictional story and the real world can also be seen in the viewing of animation. When we watch an animated film, we hear the voices of the characters in the film, but just as in a live-action film, we also hear the same voices as the actor's.

Let me return to the experience. I mentioned the similarity between the area of color and shape projected on the screen and the bodies of the actors or the characters in the film, but we are not only conscious of the bodies of the characters in this intentional process of what we might call film viewing but also experience their mind or consciousness. Again, we can either focus on the consciousness of the actor playing the role and on the consciousness of the character being played. In the latter, the viewer is able to read what the characters are seeing, hearing, feeling, and thinking in the fictional world. In the representational experience in watching a film, the audience's visual and auditory senses are the foundation on which the believing, valuing, and willing of the characters are expressed through the facial expressions, lines, and gestures.

The following is a brief summary of how we become aware of the characters in the film. First, (1) watching the images and listening to the sounds emitted from devices. Second, (2) experiencing actor's body and voice that the images and sounds represent. (The sound from the speakers resembles the actor's voice, and the image on the screen resembles the actor's body.) And the most important part of watching a fiction film is (3) experiencing the fictional characters represented by the actors' gestures and voices.

Although our attention may be diverted to the actors themselves rather than to the characters, we usually tend to immerse ourselves in the world of the film while we watch it. Why does this happen? Performance is one factor but another is the careful elimination by creators from movies elements that contradict the fictional world. For example,a film about an ancient myth would be ruined if there were trucks or Coca-Cola cans in the scene. No matter how immersed you are in the story, just one element that is incompatible with the world the film is enough to cause disillusionment.

I would also like to refer to an important element of cinema;the story. It can be as simple as one that a good guy defeating bad guys or more complex one, but in any case, the audience recognizes some kind of story through the sequence of shots. Thus an encounter with a film is also an encounter with a story. Even before a film begins, we, the audience, expect some kind of story. For some films, we know the ending even before we start seeing the film. In the case of "Top Gun: Maverick," we can predict even before the screening begins that the U.S. military will end up victorious. We don't know whether the main character will survive or die in battle,whether there will be casualties among the allied pilots and what kind of character will appear in the film. But these undefined aspects will be defined by the actual viewing of the film.