Cinema can take people to the moon, re-enact gigantic battles, and take the audience to magical lands and universes. Georges Meliès, Jean Cocteau, films like "The Thief of Baghdad" and "Battleship Potemkin" are prime examples of monumental qualities of cinema, with the world building that takes place on the titanic screen. But the films of the Lumiere brothers were also about people playing cards, people in their gardens, colloquial and mundane situations.
Cinema is the place where a light can be shone on the ordinary. Siegfried Kracauer once wrote, "Life at its least controllable and most unconscious moments, a jumble of transient, forever dissolving patterns accessible only to the camera."
