I’m sneaking this in. It’s required viewing. If you have antidepressants you might sprinkle them on your popcorn.
Set aside a couple hours and watch this film. I will dwell on each of the following aspects so if you don’t watch you’ll be swamped and the other writers will laugh at your expense. And you will be held back a grade.
Pay attention to the following:
How they use flashbacks at the beginning
How they use flashforwards after the first eighteen minutes
How limiting the setting and characters cranks up the tension quickly
How they morph key objects over the course of the story
How the classic formula of the martyr, the murder and the wittness is done
How the “clock” works
How Romantic Fatalism works
This is exactly like college. I have no idea what time class starts and I can never seem to find my pencil.
The last time I was in college it took me 4 years to get a 2-year art degree. I'm not foreshadowing or anything.