Cinema also has one incontrovertible advantage compared with the theater; nowhere on any stage in the world is the illusion more perfect, identification closer, and reality more strongly suspended than in a dark cinema looking at a sereen. In the theater, people laugh; less frequently, they cry. But the cinema, with its films, is the place where really great emotions are evoked, the place where everything that goes on beyond the dark velvet curtains has, for a while, no meaning at all. It's the place where dreams become reality.