Sarah wrote to film-philosophy:
S> [snip] statements with regard to past events that reflect our
S> knowledge (or the author's knowledge) of what is going to happen
S> after, that participants in the event have no way of knowing. ...
S> [snip] There are many instances of narrative sentences in films, like
S> flashbacks where you've already seen events in the film's 'present'.
I'm reminded even more of the vogue in late 60s feature films for
shock-cut flashforwards. I was just watching Lester's _Petulia_ last
week, and it's full of them, as is Boorman's 1967 version of _Point
Blank_. But in those films, we're given these flashes of "knowledge" but
we really don't know what to do with them -- they only make sense once
diegetic time has "caught up" with them (and the narrative can only be
seen whole once the film is over).
--
Jim Flannery [log in to unmask]
Because they've created such a deep structure now, you can't
get in. And we don't want to get in, we're on the outside.
But we're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside
looking out. -- John Zorn
np: John Luther Adams, _Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing_
nr: Harry Mathews, _The Journalist_
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