Abstract
According to Wittgenstein’s claim that our “seeing a thing as” is strongly dependent
on what he calls “world-picture” and vice versa, motion pictures present “surveyable repres-
entations” of our world-picture and therefore influence the way we see the world. Insofar as
understanding means to see coherences, motion pictures help humans understand world-pictures.
But the insights imparted by motion pictures are not of a mere cognitive kind, since motion
pictures do not present arguments. By making use of imaginative identification they have such
an impact on humans that they directly “embody” insights and thereby changing what is accepted
as knowledge within a world-picture.