A final splash plops … all water-movement ceases and the screen is a black velvet void. - Peter Greenaway

Isn't that why people keep diaries -- to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?

Blood: A red substance believed to be capable of supporting life but which in a theatrical drama invariably indicates death.

In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.