Very slowly, millimetre by millimetre — slo-mo is another Wilson trademark — he moves backward, staring at the window.
But as his solo progresses and its intensity builds, he moves backward in time, first quoting Thelonious Monk, then invoking a Count Basie-like big band shout.
Later, when the parents are separating the two lovers, the superb Estrada does a large, dramatic step dégagé front to développé arabesque back over and over as he moves backward, away from his Layla, Sabella.
After opening the book with glimpses of how dire these lives will become, he moves backward in time to observe his family from the vantage point of a bedazzled, seemingly innocent child.
For Van Sant, what matters is the paralyzing dailiness of school social life — gossip, flirtations, hazing — so he moves backward and forward in time, establishing states of being rather than a sequence of events.
Later, when the parents are separating the two lovers, the superb Estrada does a large, dramatic step — dégagé front to développé arabesque back — over and over as he moves backward, away from his Layla, Sabella.
Barrera, as he did against Hamed, moved backward.
He said Russia had moved backward from democracy but had not yet returned to dictatorship.
Krebs said he suspected the investigation had moved backward, not forward.
