My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.
That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

