Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Observations on the Longtake" response

Reading #2

The assigned reading on the longtake was a little out there I thought. Out there in the fact that the author was trying really hard to back up his points with legitimate evidence, but for me he failed at doing so. He made some very broad assumptions on nonspecific abstract theoretical ideas, that many times had almost nothing to do with the longtake in film.
He also failed in half supporting his theories with one real-life example; the assassination Kennedy video.
Briefly in the beginning of his short essay on long shot and death, Pasolini makes a few interesting points that I haven't considered when thinking about longtake. For instance, he explains how longtake creates subjectivity because it's from one point of view literally. I never really thought that this was true, in fact I thought the latter. I think because the camera is fixed and there are no edits or panning, it makes a film less subjective. However, in a very literal was I can see how he thinks longtake is subjective and singe-viewed. He also tries to explain how longtake is always in the present tense because it views exactly what is happening at that moment in time in front of that particular camera. This is also one of those abstract and not clearly defined ideas he discusses. Like what he mean exactly by present tense. The present tense for the viewer, for the film maker, for the subjects?
While reading this article I yearned for more connectivity among subject matter and more thourough explanation of the thesis.