It has been said: " No two people have ever read the same book." This is true for literature where the reader has to imagine a world presented by words. It doesn't seem appropriate for cinema which presents a world ready-made to be seen and heard. But films, almost since their early beginnings, and especially in the recent decades, have been capable not to present, not to show, but to allude to off-screen events and images. One could say about most of the movies discussed in this book: " No two people have ever watched the same film ".

This book deals with intellectual capacity and the diversity in cinema since the Lumiere brothers in the late nineteenth century and Murray Rosenberg at the beginning of the twentieth century, through international masterpieces (Hitchcock, Welles, Godard, etc.) and the best Israeli films ('Sallah Shabati', 'Metzitzim', 'Bikur Ha-Tizmoret', and 'Waltz with Bashir'). This book was awarded the BAHAT PRIZE, 2007. The BAHAT PRIZE is awarded annually in memory of Professor Yaacov Bahat