the passage of time

What’s wild about focused attention is that the act of observation is implicitly timeless. A little dose of time travel. To look closely you must be present. And the more present you are, the more you move outside the boundaries of time.

“The camera stays close to motion and dialogue, refusing the usual narrative shortcuts. In doing so, it allows time to be felt rather than marked less a backdrop than a presence that presses in on every glance and silence.”

What If Love Was Just a Conversation?

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“The trilogy doesn’t explain time; it lets it settle. Its method leans into phenomenology without naming it. Time isn’t an external measure, nor a device to pace the plot. It swells and contracts with the characters’ movements and emotional weather. In youth, it feels open and elastic. In early adulthood, it begins to fold around choices already... See more