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Film and Cinematography - What's the Nature of the Flashback?
Cinematographic techniques that might map onto other cognitive operations, like the close up. Or even slow motion, which could capture those moments maybe of boredom - when time slows down. I'm now thinking about the movie inception, which is about dreams. So there are these scenes where the characters are moving at normal speed, but then it's the world itself that starts moving in slow motion. The idea is that through this enematic intervention, you capture something about the mental operations of the dreaming subject. Namely, that in dreams like the lows of physics don't really apply.
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