I was reading today, in Walter Kaufmann's book, about Nietzsche's ideas on the 'suprahistorical', ie. that 'aesthetic values appeared to be, in a sense, independent of historical change... If the beauty of Greece is still beauty to us, is its independence of time rather different from that of the human anatomy?'  If we were to apply this to cinema and its aesthetics would we find the same timelessness?  Is cinema as art definable as suprahistorical, or is it simply decadent?  I would like someone to discuss this with me.