In just about any film class, the first thing the teacher will say is that everything in a movie is there for a reason.
If a scene is shot from eye-level or a bird’s-eye view, that’s because the director and cinematographer thought that was best. If a cat wanders through the background of a scene, it was either planned that way or the director decided it was interesting enough to keep. Auteurs such as Alfred Hitchcock planned everything in advance but even go-with-the-flow directors get the final say about which parts of the flow we’ll see on screen.
I mention that only because the most created-for-our-eyes-only kind of movie is stop-motion animation, which uses a series of static images (usually involving some kind of puppet) to create the illusion of movement. Literally every single thing we see on screen is there for a reason.
Stop-motion movies, which date to the early days of cinema, don’t depict reality; they depict something better. By creating a world that resembles ours but clearly isn’t, they give us an eye-opening new way to look at the things around us.