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Film is simply too impractical to be conspired as a serious medium for the imparting of deep and complex ideas. For example you need displaying facilities if you even wish to see it.
Secondly you cannot impart complex and deep ideas through it, for example from Karl Marx’s book, “The German Ideology”,
How are we supposed to effectively impart the ideas of “Contradictions of Big Industry: Revolution” from “Theses on Feuerbach” in a way which is more practical and enlightening than simply reading it? What took Marx & Engels 5 pages, would easily take many hours of film to effectively convey the meaning of, whereas I can read those pages in a few mere minutes.
Simply showing pictures or music will not aid in understanding of it. Also to have words simply scrolling across the screen is far slower and impractical than simply reading it.
A film cannot be everything a book can be, simply from its limitations as a medium. The written word can convey thoughts and motivations and emotions and ideas directly and quickly, whereas with film everything must be hammered across so there can be no hope of misunderstanding and it also takes longer.
“The Prince” effectively gives a complete guide to being a dictator in its 141 pages, whereas a film to convey all this information would need to be so many hours long it would become completely impractical and useless by all reasonable standards.
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