Please write a response (around 350 words) to this week’s readings and screening

Please write a response (around 350 words) to this week’s readings and screening(s). What interests or surprises you about the readings and/or the screening? What did you find yourself agreeing or disagreeing with in the week’s materials? How would you apply concepts from the readings to the week’s film? How does the film illustrate, contradict, or open up new ways of interpreting the readings?
Thinking about questions of realism, surrealism, illusion, and replication in the work of theorists like Arnheim, Breton, Dulac, and Benjamin, how do you see Certified Copy engaging with related concepts? What might these (or other) theorists have to say about the film? How do you see it relating to the other films we have seen in class so far? How might similar questions pertain to The Smiling Mme Beudet? How do you see the relationship between Dulac’s work as a theorist and her work as a practitioner of film?
These are all suggested approaches to the weekly response. Please feel free to address any, all, or none of them.
Please include at least two discussion questions at the conclusion of your response.