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Five Dedicated to Ozu
Five Dedicated to Ozu · 2003
Abbas Kiarostami / 阿巴斯·基亚罗斯塔米 · Iran
Human action leaves the centre; waves, driftwood, moonlight, frogs, and rain become temporal events that must be watched and heard.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ · 2010
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古 · Thailand
The dead, the living, animals, and former lives unfold incompatible times on the same perceptual plane.
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The single take turns the Hermitage into traversable sheets of the past, carrying history beyond a linear present.
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Factory 420 is being demolished, so the place named by testimony disappears from the image while it is being narrated. Workers and performers including Joan Chen, Lü Liping, and Zhao Tao share the same frontal interview form. The film neither lets professional identity settle truth nor equates performance with deceit; dialect, pause, facial detail, old photographs, popular songs, and demolition dust test one another. Here the power of the false does not abolish history. It forces history to acknowledge that urban memory can only be produced among heterogeneous tellings.
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Brief mention by Deleuze · 1948Germany Year ZeroRuins, historical sound, sensory-motor rupture, and the child seerDeleuze primary text · 1963Pour la suite du mondeOral memory, the beluga hunt, fabulation, and a people to comeAtlas analysis · 2004Tropical MaladyRupture, soundscape, queer time, and becoming in Tropical Malady
01A flashback is not direct time
Ask whether it merely supplies causal information; time becomes the issue only when distinct sheets of past coexist without reducing to one recollection.
02A mirror is not automatically a crystal
A mirror is only a formal clue; a crystal requires actual and virtual to exchange while remaining indiscernible.
03A long take does not automatically present time
Duration is not the conclusion; ask whether persistence, waiting, and intervals subordinate movement to time rather than merely slowing action.
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