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I'm a very literary person, not so much a cinematographic person. I don't really like cinema very much.
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The speaker identifies more strongly with literature than with film. Saying they are “not so much a cinematographic person” presents cinema as outside their main interests, while “I don't really like cinema very much” makes the preference clear without claiming that cinema has no value at all.
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