Once Again, Last Minute Planning

[debka_notion]

This seems to be my summer for last-minute-y stuff. I've got to finish my plans for getting to and from New York this weekend, and then Dave's here for most of the weekday part of the week, and then I think I'm off again. I think like is gearing up a notch or two for a bit, then a calm (including about a week of being home on my own) and then camp, and back to school. WHen you look at it in encapsulated form like that, it seems like no time at all. And yet- it's about a month. Time seems entirely too flexible for something that's supposed to be measurable. I've never understood how something can feel so different, and yet still be effectively measured in the same way.

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Time on Screen...

[shorr.livejournal.com]

And yet, you experience cinema as hyper-realism. One of the most fundamental "tricks" of cinema is the ability to convincingly and compellingly "warp" the experience of time. Watch "Gone With the Wind", and by the end of it, there is an equal credibility to the sense that three hours had gone by, and that several years had gone by over the course of the film. It happens with books, too (real-time passes while you're reading, the narrative's time passes at a different pace, and sometimes, with books, like with movies, a third type of time passes -- the sort that passes when you're really engrossed, and hours pass before you realize to look at a clock)

When it comes down to it, it seems to me that they are different types of time altogether -- there's real time, perceived time, and narrative time, each of which is felt (yes, felt, somehow, experienced) in a similar, but different way.

-AzS

Re: Time on Screen...

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Madeleine L'Engle writes about a Greek concept of 2 sorts of time, Chronos which is by-the-clock, linear, measured time, and Kairos, which well, isn't- it's more experiential time. I sound reread those sections and try and give a better explanation there.

Books definitely do that to me too. But yeah- the ability of a movie to change my perception of time certainly adds to why it feels so real- the pace of the reality that I'm perceiving is changing- what could make more of a difference in what seems real? In some ways it's a similar sensation to how I'd feel after losing track of time looking out over a clif, or something like that, but well, more so.