I have a few problems with Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" because of the way he goes back and forth between his ideas about the way film concerns art. He says that it's not art for a number of reasons but then counters that with reasons that film is art. I also don't agree with his idea that because the "masses" are crossing the line between artist and audience, writer and reader, there is some sort of "crisis." Why is there a problem if more people want to create art? Shouldn't everyone have the opportunity to do this? If there is more art in the world then I don't see the problem. Also, if reproduction is bringing more art to people in the world then what is the problem there? A person can't experience art just became the original piece is not in front of them? I think mechanical reproduction has done a lot of wonderful things for the world of art; it has brought art to people and places that wouldn't normally have access to it.