Why Does Adding Time Make Experiences Richer?
Adding time to an experience, instead of removing it, creates delayed gratification. That delay is what turns effort into passion and makes life feel richer, not faster.
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I went to Brussels to see The Odyssey because it is one of the few cinemas where you can watch it in real IMAX, the way Christopher Nolan actually shot it. It is crazy how much bigger that screen is compared to what we have here in Breda. Nolan did something with time in that movie, not only within the story but in the storytelling itself, something I think he did even better in Interstellar.
There is a twenty year gap in the storyline. That stretches the mind. It stretches your experience because you have to time travel in your own mind to keep up with it. But the pacing inside individual scenes does the same thing on a smaller scale. There is a moment where Odysseus is talking to his wife, and in that quiet, intimate conversation there are flashbacks from ten years earlier woven into the same moment. Intimate and small, but also big and large, all at once. Time stretched right there in the room.