The manifest content of the common movie is only the pretext for cinematographic expression itself. The 'pure' movie aims only at this expression—which these writers compare with the dream work—and in it all kinds of representations and symbols, such as those in dreams, are automatically utilized by the director.

Piertranera and Montani give many examples from movies to illustrate their point of view. 'The "pure" movie is a means of expression of the unconscious thought, as an organic projection of the unconscious thought itself.' Exhibitionistic and scoptophilic drives, as well as narcissistic identification of the