Cinema and the Subconscious: The Power of Visual Poetry What if a film didn’t just tell you a story but bypassed words entirely, speaking directly to your subconscious? What if it left behind images, sounds, and fragments of thought that stirred something deep inside you, long after the credits rolled? Very few cinematic creations achieve this transcendental effect, but when they do, they feel like works of art that shift something within us—like pebbles dropped into the still waters of the mind, rippling outward. For me, this rare power of cinema came alive through the works of Stanley Kubrick, Christopher