1. The author says that with photography, the first process of reproduction, art "sensed the approaching crisis." Why is this a crisis if it gives almost anyone the ability to experience art? Yes, it's different than seeing it in person, but does that mean that only a person that has the ability to physically visit a work of art should see that work? And if that is true then does he only want art available for the bourgeoisie since they would be the only ones able to view these works without reproductions?

2. Does Benjamin think film is a work of art? He goes back and forth in that he says that film actors don't have an aura and that it has no cult value but then he also says that film offers a more significant reality than painting "...precisely because of the thoroughgoing permeation of reality with mechanical equipment, an aspect of reality which is free of all equipment. And that is what one is entitled to ask from a work of art." Does he think that film could be a work of art but film actors can't?