A Reflection on the medium of Cinema, Film versus Digital: Which side are you on?

Storytelling
has been an essential part of the survival of humans and human civilization in
general. Over the years humans have designed and found newer ways to narrate
and preserve their memories. However, it was not until Lumière brothers found
the magic of narrating stories by moving the frozen images, not until cinema
was invented, the art of storytelling remained somewhere hollow. This is one
such medium that encompasses all the art forms, whether painting, dance, drama,
etc., or any science, whether it be physics, chemistry, math; and at times, it
even succeeds revolutionizing these and other such streams. Nonetheless, since
last few years, cinema is also going through certain revolution. This
revolution is about the freedom of choosing the medium via which directors want
to narrate their stories, that is, with film or digital. Now, this paper is an
attempt to explore the possibilities that these mediums provide to cinema along
with their limitations. Also, it seeks for an answer as what kind of affect and
effect it produces on first, the director, and second, on the audience, when
one medium is chosen over the other. This paper goes through the versions of
different directors and technicians, such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese,
James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Keanu Reeves, and more, who have mastered
their art form of storytelling by choosing one or both mediums of cinema and
attempts to bring out the answer to the questions: Whether film should be left
to die? Which one is the superlative medium, film or digital? Is digital
revolutionizing cinema for real?