What, if anything, did your own experiences with time — growing up, and as a mother — contribute to your vision of time in the film?
What is striking about this arrangement is how much it differs from the vision of time put forward by all the major religions.
But that didn't involve a vision of time travel so much as a desire to know what lay in store for you, personally; for the world at large, well, what you saw was what you got, now and forever.
Deleuze, for instance, distinguishes between pre-World War II cinema, in which time was subordinate to movement (the passage of time obscured through classical techniques like those of continuity editing), and postwar cinema, in which a direct vision of time emerges.
In particular, his vision of time has been widely ignored.
In discussing the nature of time, Blake wrote in his notes: "The Greeks represented Chronos or Time as a very Aged Man; this is Fable, but the Real Vision of Time is in Eternal Youth.
However, it involves a dichotomous vision of time estimation in that it characterizes the process as prospective or retrospective.
English, in a separate email, called Clipson "some kind of magician," whose work "extends this record," which feels right, in the case of "Cruel Optimism," the totemic power of which now feels like a half-remembered vision of times long passed.
In their transforming bedroom, with Stephanie sleeping beside him, unaware that she was bedding down with a criminal, Kendall lay awake for hours, jittery with visions of jail time and perp walks and the loss of his children.
Along with the dream-lit tableaux from his childhood, he is vouchsafed extraordinary visions of geological time and the unknowable reaches of the universe, in comparison with which his loss is meaningless.
