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There is another Nick Roeg film that jumps around in time, and (as usual) the trope is crucial to the film's impact: Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession is essentially told in flashback, as Alex Linden is interrogated by Inspector Netusil about the ravishment of Melina...match cuts from her tracheotomy to her gasping in the throes of orgasm with Linden are superb. "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy Daniel Shaw Professor of Philosophy and Film Lock Haven University Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw ________________________________ * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **