The game has a clever do-over feature, an important element in the movie plot, in which the player gets to stop time and rewind it, and what Mr. Mechner calls a "Double Indemnity -like narratIndemnity -likenarratione entirely clear until the very end.
Shattuck is very good, for instance, in explaining the nature of the double "I" of Proustian narration.
The double "I" promotes a dramatic narration, and Shattuck effectively conveys the suspense and excitement of reading the "Search".
Ware has an extraordinary command of time and pacing: one bravura page depicts the florist and her husband dealing with her father's decline over several months, every panel a perfectly composed little square, the thought balloons doubling as after-the-fact narration, and the whole thing a tribute to the look of Frank King's old "Gasoline Alley" Sunday pages.
Copy and paste any JPGs that appear twice in the storyboard order in the upper storyboard frame, and any JPGs that need to appear for double the standard duration per the narration.
The narration enacts the narrator's fate.
The commentary functions like film noir narration (recalling the framing of 1944 classic Double Indemnity – the confession of a crooked insurance salesman to his boss), only more florid and a little less spiffy.
If you speak Spanish, then you're in for a double treat, as you'll be able to understand the narration.
In vérité style, with no narration and minimal interviews, Mr. Melgar portrays a kind of double captivity: the bored and desperate inmates, mostly African, who can be held for two years without charges, and the Swiss warders, whose amiability and painstaking politeness go hand in hand with paternalism and a manic devotion to correct procedures.
